Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. PART I: THE RISE OF THE MOVIES: POLITICAL FILMMAKING AND THE WORKING CLASS
7. Introduction 3
8. 1. Going to the Movies: Leisure, Class, and Danger in the Early Twentieth Century 11
9. 2. Visualizing the Working Class: Cinema and Politics before Hollywood 34
10. 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Violent: Class Conflict and the Labor-Capital Genre 56
11. 4. Making a Pleasure of Agitation: The Rise of the Worker Film Movement 86
12. PART II: THE RISE OF HOLLYWOOD: FROM WORKING CLASS TO MIDDLE CLASS
13. 5. When Russia Invaded America: Hollywood, War, and the Movies 115
14. 6. Struggles for the Screen: The Revival of the Worker Film Movement 143
15. 7. Fantasy and Politics: Moviegoing and Movies in the 1920s 173
16. 8. Lights Out: The Decline of Labor Filmmaking and the Triumph of Hollywood 212
17. Epilogue The Movies Talk But What Do They Say? 240
18. Appendixes I. Select Filmography 259
19. II. Sources and Methods for Writing Film History 263
20. Abbreviations 277
21. Notes 279
22. Index 353