Selected Bibliography

This bibliography contains references to the main texts in film criticism and social theory and history that we consulted. Other works that we used are found in the notes.

T. W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (New York: Seabury, 1972).

Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy (London: New Left Books, 1971).

Albert Auster and Leonard Quart, American Film and Society Since 1945 (New York: Praeger, 1984).

Walter Benjamin, Illuminations (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968).

Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama (London: New Left Books, 1977).

Peter Biskind, Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Movies Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties (New York: Pantheon, 1983).

S. J. Blatt, “Levels of Object Representation in Anaclitic and Introjective Depression,” Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (1974), no. 29, pp. 107-157.

S.J. Blatt, C. Wild, and B. Ritzier, “Disturbances of object representation in Schizophrenia,” Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Science (1975), no. 4, pp. 235-288.

Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America (New York: Basic Books, 1982).

David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson, The Classical Hollywood Cinema (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).

Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985).

Harvey Brenner, Mental Illness and the Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).

Andrew Britton, Richard Lippe, Tony Williams, and Robin Wood, American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film (Toronto: Festivals of Festivals Publication, 1979).

Walter Dean Burnham, The Current Crisis of American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).

Angus Campbell, The Sense of Well Being in America: Recent Patterns and Trends (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).

Albert H. Cantril and Charles W. Roll, Hopes and Fears of the American People (New York: Universe, 1971).

Peter Carroll, It Seemed Like Nothing Happened (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982).

Manuel Castells, The Economic Crisis and American Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980).

David Caute, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978).

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, On Ideology (London: Hutchinson, 1979).

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Culture, Media, Language (London: Hutchinson, 1980).

Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).

Nancy Chodorow, “Beyond Drive Theory. Object Relations and the Limits of Radical Individualism,” Theory and Society, Vol. 14 (1985), pp. 271-319.

Harry Cleaver, Reading Capital Politically (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979).

Philip E. Converse et al., American Social Attitudes Data Resourcebook 1947-1978 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980).

Callisto Cosulich, Hollywood Settanta: il nuovo volto del cinema americano (Florence: Vallecchi, 1978).

Alan Crawford, Thunder on the Right (New York: Pantheon, 1980).

Thomas Cripps, Black Film as Genre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978).

Philip Davies and Brian Neve, editors, Cinema, Politics and Society in America (New York: St. Martin’s, 1981).

Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream (New York: Verso, 1986).

Teresa de Lauretis, Alice Doesn’t. Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984).

Barbara Deming, Running Away from Myself (New York: Grossman, 1969).

Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976).

Kenneth M. Dolbeare and Patricia Dolbeare, American Ideologies: The Competing Political Beliefs of the 70s (Chicago: Markham, 1971).

Thomas B. Edsall, The New Politics of Inequality (New York: Norton, 1984).

Barbara Ehrenreich, The Hearts of Men (New York: Doubleday, 1983).

Patricia Erens, editor, Sexual Strategems: The World of Women in Film (New York: Horizon, 1979).

Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen, Channels of Desire (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982).

Sigmund Freud, Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works (London: Hogarth, 1963).

George Gallup, Jr., editor, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1970-1985).

George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic, 1981).

Gerald R. Gill, Meanness Mania (Washington: Howard University Press, 1980).

John L. Goodman, Jr., Public Opinion During the Reagan Administration: National Issues, Private Concern (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1983).

Andre Gorz, Farewell to the Working Class (Boston: South End Press, 1982).

Andre Gorz, Paths to Paradise (Boston: South End Press, 1984).

Bertram Gross, Friendly Fascism (Boston: South End Press, 1980).

Michael Harrington, The Twilight of Capitalism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976).

Molly Haskell, From Reverence to Rape (Baltimore: Penguin, 1973).

Stephen Heath, Questions of Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981).

Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time (New York: Random House, 1976).

Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture,” Social Text 1 (Winter 1979), pp. 130-148.

I. C. Jarvie, Toward A Sociology of the Cinema (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970).

I. C. Jarvie, Movies as Social Criticism (Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1978).

Robert Jewett and John Lawerence, The American Monomyth (New York: Doubleday, 1977).

Marty Jezer, Life in the Dark Ages. A History of the United States from 1945-1960 (Boston: South End Press, 1982).

Richard Johnson, “What is Cultural Studies Anyway?” (Mimeographed Occasional Paper ^#74, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham).

Gareth Jowett, Film: The Democratic Art (New York: William Morrow, 1976).

Stuart Kaminsky, American Film Genres (Dayton: Pflaum, 1974).

E. Ann Kaplan, editor, Women in Film Noir (London: British Film Institute, 1978).

E. Ann Kaplan, Women and Film (New York: Methuen, 1983).

Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind (Chicago: Gateway, 1978).

Joel Kovel, The Age of Desire (New York: Pantheon, 1981).

Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974).

Annette Kuhn, Women’s Pictures (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982).

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffee, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London: New Left Books, 1985).

Seymour M. Lipset and William Schneider, The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor, and Government in the Public Mind (New York: Free Press, 1983).

Theodore Louis and Jean Pigeon, Le cinema americain d’aujourd’hui (Paris: Seghers, 1975).

Theodore J. Lowi, The End of Liberalism (New York: Norton, 1979; second edition).

Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978).

Manning Marable, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Boston: South End Press, 1982).

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Marx-Engels Reader , edited by Robert C. Tucker (New York: Norton, 1978; second edition).

Joan Mellen, Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film (New York: Dell, 1973).

Joan Mellen, Big Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Film (New York: Pantheon, 1977).

David Mermelstein, The Economic Crisis Reader (New York: Vintage, 1975).

Kate Millet, Sexual Politics (New York: Avon, 1971).

Juliet Mitchell, Psychoanalysis and Feminism (New York: Random House, 1975).

James Monaco, American Film Now (New York: New American Library, 1979).

Robin Morgan, editor, Sisterhood is Powerful (New York: Random House, 1970).

George Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: The Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (New York: Grosset Dunlap, 1964).

Victor Navasky, Naming Names (New York: Viking, 1980).

Bill Nichols, editor, Movies and Methods, Vols. I and II (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976 and 1985)

Bill Nichols, Ideology and the Image: Social Representation in the Cinema and Other Media (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981).

Michel Pecheux, Language, Semantics, and Ideology (New York: Saint Martin’s, 1982).

David Perry and Alfred Watkins, The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1977).

David Pirie, editor, The Anatomy of the Movies (New York: Macmillan, 1981).

Francis F. Piven and Richard Cloward, The New Class War (New York: Pantheon, 1981).

Gerald M. Platte and Fred Weinstein, Psychoanalytic Sociology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973).

Michael Pye and Linda Myles, The Movie Brats: How the Film Generation Took Over Hollywood (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979).

Robert Ray, A Certain Tendency in the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).

Keith Reader, Cultures on Celluloid (London: Quartet, 1981).

Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy, The Hollywood Social Problem Film (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981).

Majorie Rosen, Popcorn Venus (New York: 1973).

Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (London: Merlin, 1979).

Vito Russo, The Celluloid Closet (New York: Harper and Row, 1981).

Kirkpatrick Sale, Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment (New York: Random House, 1975).

Thomas Schatz, Hollywood Genres (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981).

Thomas Schatz, Old Hollywood/New Hollywood (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983).

J. Schimek, “A Critical Reexamination of Freud’s Concept of Mental Representation,” International Review of Psychoanalysis (1975), no. 2, pp. 171-187.

Michael Schneider, Neurosis and Civilization (New York: Seabury, 1975).

Eva Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: Male Homosexual Desire in British Fiction (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).

Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Film (New York: Random House, 1975).

Julian Smith, Looking Away: Hollywood and Vietnam (New York: Scribners, 1975).

Peter Steinfels, The Neo-Conservatives (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979).

David Talbot and Barbara Zheutlin, Creative Differences (Boston: South End Press, 1981).

Richard Terdiman, Discourse/Counter-Discourse (New York and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985).

Sara Thomas, editor, Film/Culture: Explorations of Cinema in its Social Context (Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1982).

John Thompson, Studies in the Theory of Ideology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1984).

Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982).

Union for Radical Political Economics, Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism (New York: 1975).

Joseph Veroff et al., The Inner American: A Self-Portrait from 1957 to 1976 (New York: Basic Books, 1981).

William Watts and Lloyd A. Free, editors, The State of the Nation (New York: Universe Books, 1973).

William Watts and Lloyd A. Free, editors, The State of the Nation III (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1978).

Cornel West, Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (Philadelphia: Westminister Press, 1982).

Robert W. Whitaker, editor, The New Right Papers (New York: St. Martins, 1982).

David M. White and Richard Averson, The Celluloid Weapon: Social Comment in the American Film (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972).

Paul Willis and Philip Corrigan, “Forms of Experience,” Social Text (Spring-Summer 1983), pp. 85-103.

Alan Wolfe, America’s Impasse (Boston: South End Press, 1982).

Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites, Movies: A Psychological Study (Glencoe: The Free Press, 1950).

Robin Wood, Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).

Will Wright, Six-Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977).

Daniel Yankelovich, The New Morality: A Profile of American Youth in the 70s (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974).