Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. PART ONE. CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD (1930-1945)
6. 1. A Certain Tendency of the American Cinema: Classic Hollywood's Formal and Thematic Paradigms 25
7. 2. Real and Disguised Westerns: Classic Hollywood's Variations of Its Thematic Paradigm 70
8. 3. The Culmination of Classic Hollywood: Casablanca 89
9. 4. Classic Hollywood's Holding Pattern: The Combat Films of World War II 113
10. PART TWO. THE POSTWAR PERIOD (1946-1966)
11. 5. The Dissolution of the Homogeneous Audience and Hollywood's Response: Cult Films, Problem Pictures, and Inflation 129
12. 6. The Discrepancy between Intent and Effect: Film Noir, Youth Rebellion Pictures, Musicals, and Westerns 153
13. 7. Ifs a Wonderful Life and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 175
14. PART THREE. THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (1967-1980)
15. 8. The 1960s: Frontier Metaphors, Developing Self- Consciousness, and New Waves 247
16. 9. The Left and Right Cycles 296
17. 10. The Godfather and Taxi Driver 326
18. Conclusion 361
19. Notes 369
20. Bibliography 389
21. Index 399