| Preface | |
| The Earliest Years | |
| World Without Sound: The 1896 Lumiere Film Program | p. 3 |
| The Portrayal of China and India on the American Screen, 1896-1955 | p. 8 |
| Siegmund Lubin: The Forgotten Filmmaker | p. 33 |
| A Channel for Democratic Thought | p. 52 |
| Sholem Aleichem and Charlie Chaplin | p. 66 |
| The Impact of Griffith's Birth of a Nation on the Modern Ku Klux Klan | p. 72 |
| The Sixtieth Anniversary of Griffith's Intolerance | p. 83 |
| American Propaganda Films of the First World War | p. 90 |
| Chaplin's Shoulder Arms (The Mirror-Cracking Sequence) | p. 95 |
| The Red Scare Film Cycle | p. 101 |
| The 1920s Prosperity Era | |
| A Filmography of Oscar Micheaux: America's Legendary Black Filmmaker | p. 113 |
| The Reign of the Director | p. 142 |
| Portrait of Asta Nielsen | p. 145 |
| Von Stroheim and Realism | p. 151 |
| Blood, Sweat, Tears | p. 155 |
| Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Jeanne d'Arc | p. 163 |
| A New Look at Eisenstein's Potemkin | p. 168 |
| King Vidor's The Crowd | p. 176 |
| Pudovkin's Storm Over Asia and Griffith's Lincoln | p. 181 |
| Social Awakening - the 1930s | |
| Eisenstein in Paris in 1930: An Eyewitness Report | p. 187 |
| Manifesto on [actual symbol not reproducible]Que Viva Mexico! (1934) | p. 193 |
| [actual symbol not reproducible]Que Viva Mexico! Original Scenario | p. 197 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front and Cabin in the Cotton: Reviews | p. 220 |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang and They Won't Forget | p. 223 |
| John Ford's The Informer (1934) | p. 225 |
| Paul Strand's Mexican Film Redes (1935) | p. 229 |
| Fritz Lang and Fury (1936) | p. 234 |
| Survival List: Films of the Great Depression | p. 240 |
| Documenting the Depression of the 1930s: The Work of the Film and Photo League | p. 252 |
| One Man's Voyage: Ideas and Films in the 1930s | p. 261 |
| Joris Ivens' Spanish Earth (1937) | p. 282 |
| Fifty Years of Political Filmmaking: An Interview with Joris Ivens | p. 285 |
| The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War | p. 297 |
| Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion | p. 305 |
| William Dieterle's Blockade | p. 308 |
| John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath | p. 316 |
| Four Million Dollars Worth of Wind: David Selznick's Gone with the Wind | p. 324 |
| How the Screen Writers Formed a Union in 1933 | p. 328 |
| Professor Mamlock and Other Soviet Anti-Nazi Films | p. 331 |
| Dziga Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin | p. 337 |
| War, Post-War, and McCarthyism | |
| Chaplin's The Great Dictator | p. 343 |
| Orson Welles' Citizen Kane | p. 349 |
| World War II and the American Film | p. 356 |
| The Screen and the Holocaust | p. 369 |
| The Sign of the Boss: Cecil De Mille, Union Buster | p. 383 |
| Chaplin Among the Immortals | p. 395 |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | p. 402 |
| Some of My Worst Friends: Motion Pictures and Anti-Semitism | p. 408 |
| The Hollywood Witchhunt of 1947: A Thirtieth Anniversary | p. 420 |
| Elia Kazan and Viva Zapata! | p. 439 |
| Oliver Twist and Anti-Semitism | p. 453 |
| The Case of the Invisible Force: Images of the Negro in Hollywood Films | p. 457 |
| The United States vs. Charlie Chaplin | p. 467 |
| Breaking Ground: The Making of Salt of the Earth | p. 478 |
| Salt of the Earth | p. 485 |
| "Do Not Forgive Them, For They Know What They Do" | p. 491 |
| Letters on the Hollywood Blacklist | p. 494 |
| The 1960s and 1970s | |
| Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964) | p. 505 |
| Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun | p. 509 |
| Filmmakers Discover "New" Native Americans | p. 513 |
| The Defiance in The Defiant Ones | p. 519 |
| Union Films: An Interview with Carl Marzani | p. 524 |
| Hollywood and the Myth of the Working Class | p. 535 |
| Independent Film and Working-Class History: A Review of Northern Lights and The Wobblies | p. 545 |
| Who Killed Marilyn Monroe? | p. 558 |
| Looking Back from 1983: Soviet Films After World War II | p. 564 |
| Judgment at Nuremberg: An Indictment | p. 577 |
| Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: Annihilation | p. 582 |
| Final Words | p. 587 |
| Contributors | p. 589 |
| Name Index | p. 611 |
| Film Index | p. 623 |
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