| Acknowledgments | p. 13 |
| Home Alone With Classic Cinema | p. 15 |
| You Pays Your Money | p. 17 |
| Peeping | p. 18 |
| Screening | p. 21 |
| Televising | p. 24 |
| Digitizing | p. 26 |
| Laughter and Tears | p. 29 |
| Directors and Stars | p. 35 |
| Touched | p. 37 |
| The John Ford Code | p. 42 |
| Ford at War | p. 42 |
| Ford at Fox | p. 48 |
| Three | p. 52 |
| Frank Capra, True Believer | p. 57 |
| Guilty: Alfred Hitchcock | p. 63 |
| That Wild So-and-So | p. 69 |
| The Orson Welles Dilemma | p. 74 |
| After Kane | p. 74 |
| The Trouble | p. 78 |
| Dark Knight | p. 82 |
| John Brahm: The Evil That Men Do | p. 86 |
| Michael Curtiz's Doris Day Period | p. 90 |
| Anthony Mann of the West | p. 94 |
| Sam Fuller's Pulp Cinema | p. 101 |
| Akira Kurosawa's Deep Focus | p. 106 |
| Olympian | p. 106 |
| Red Harvests | p. 110 |
| Medieval Ingmar Bergman: God Is in the House, Maybe | p. 114 |
| Sergio Leone: Heroes, Villains, and Idiots | p. 122 |
| Sidney Lumet's Family Plots | p. 127 |
| The Magical Unreality of Lech Majewski | p. 135 |
| Edward Yang's Family Ties | p. 140 |
| Houdini Escapes! From the Vaults! Of the Past! | p. 144 |
| Joan Crawford Is Dangerous | p. 148 |
| Bette Davis, Bigger Than Life | p. 152 |
| The Serenity of Alice Faye | p. 156 |
| Edward G. Robinson, See | p. 161 |
| Humphrey Bogart: Falcons and Fascists | p. 167 |
| Let's Be Frank | p. 171 |
| James Stewart: No More Mr. Nice Guy | p. 176 |
| Boris Karloff: He's Alive! | p. 180 |
| Movies by Genre | p. 185 |
| Biopics | p. 187 |
| A Legend in His Own Mind (El Cid) | p. 187 |
| Lust for Lives (Young Mr. Lincoln/Lust for Life) | p. 192 |
| Felonious Munch (Edvard Munch) | p. 197 |
| Hitler's Magic Flute (Hamsun Hunger) | p. 202 |
| Fantasy/Horror | p. 206 |
| Early German Psychos (German Expressionism Collection) | p. 206 |
| It Wasn't Beauty Killed the Beast (King Kong/Grass/Chang) | p. 210 |
| Masters and Grandmasters (The Thief of Bagdad/Icons of Adventure) | p. 214 |
| Urban Legend (Blade Runner) | p. 218 |
| Carnivores (Dark Sky Films) | p. 222 |
| Comedy | p. 226 |
| Running for a Train (The General) | p. 226 |
| Road Warrior (Trafic) | p. 230 |
| Literary Adaptations | p. 234 |
| Prestige and Pretense (Pride and Prejudice) | p. 234 |
| An Unhappy Film in Its Own Way (Anna Karenina) | p. 238 |
| Classics and Semi-Classics Illustrated (Literary Classics Collection) | p. 242 |
| A Rosetta Stone for the 1950s (Ben-Hur/The Man Who Fell to Earth/Bad Timing) | p. 246 |
| John Huston's Novel Approach (Under the Volcano) | p. 250 |
| Lights! Camera! Talk! (Tennessee Williams) | p. 254 |
| Maxiseries (A Dance to the Music of Time/Fabio Montale) | p. 259 |
| Musicals | p. 263 |
| Who's Afraid of Al Jolson? (The Jazz Singer) | p. 263 |
| Pennies from Heaven (The Threepenny Opera) | p. 267 |
| Habit Forming (The Busby Berkeley Collection) | p. 271 |
| Smilin' Them to Death (Hallelujah/The Green Pastures/Cabin in the Sky) | p. 275 |
| Vaudeville (Bing Crosby: Screen Legend Collection) | p. 279 |
| Techni-glory (The Tales of Hoffman/Rodgers & Hammerstein/Gregory Hines) | p. 282 |
| Casting Doubts (Fiddler on the Roof/Presenting Lily Mars) | p. 287 |
| How Jazzed Can You Get? (Passing Through/A Great Day in Harlem/Blues in the Night/Pete Kelly's Blues) | p. 291 |
| The Scene | p. 291 |
| Lost and Found | p. 295 |
| Group Portrait | p. 298 |
| Mining the Misery | p. 301 |
| The Disney (And Anti-Disney) Version | p. 304 |
| Battling Nazis with Sambas (Saludos Amigos/The Three Caballeros) | p. 304 |
| Dog Days (Lady and the Tramp/Hayao Miyazaki/Max and Dave Fleischer) | p. 308 |
| Uncle Walt's Prairie Home Companion (True-Life Adventures) | p. 314 |
| Crime/Noir | p. 318 |
| Men Without Molls (Gangsters Collection, Vol. 3) | p. 318 |
| Elementary (Charlie Chan/Michael Shayne) | p. 323 |
| To Coin a Genre (Kino's Film Noir) | p. 328 |
| New Grubb Streets (Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 4) | p. 333 |
| The Deadly Forties (I Wake Up Screaming/When Strangers Marry) | p. 337 |
| Who Is Harry Lime? (The Third Man) | p. 343 |
| Joker (Ace in the Hole) | p. 347 |
| Salvage Jobs (Affair in Trinidad/The Garment Jungle) | p. 351 |
| Mob Mentality (Mafioso/Excellent Cadavers) | p. 355 |
| War/Agitprop | p. 359 |
| Wars to End Wars (All Quiet on the Western Front/49th Parallel) | p. 359 |
| Love the Warriors (Overlord/The Guns of Navarone/The Caine Mutiny) | p. 363 |
| Theater of the Absurd (Merrill's Marauders) | p. 367 |
| In Search of Lost Time (Muriel/La belle captive) | p. 371 |
| A Soviet Guide to Cuba (I Am Cuba) | p. 375 |
| The Redmen Are Coming (Indianerfilmes) | p. 379 |
| Recalling the Future of Nuclear War (The War Game/Culloden) | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 387 |
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