Airport, 9, 51-55
Aldrich, Robert, 101
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 138, 141-142
Alien, 183-184
All the President’s Men, 10, 86, 98-100
Allen, Woody, 152-156
Althusser, Louis, 274, 286
Altman, Robert, 9, 10, 81, 141, 147-148, 154, 156, 269-274
American Gigilo, 166
American Graffiti, 228-229
Amityville Horror, 170, 172
Annie Hall, 86
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 36-37
Apocalypse Now, 71-73, 194, 200, 205, 236-239, 268
Ashby, Hal, 152
Back to the Future, 261
Badham, John, 113-119
Balin, Rebecca, 159
Ballad of Cable Hogue, The, 80
Beat Street, 128-129
Beatty, Warren, 98, 152, 266, 275-276
Benjamin, Walter, vii, 140
Benning, James, 283
Beverly Hills Cop, 11, 128
Big Chill, The, 119, 277-279
Big Wednesday, 225
Biskind, Peter, 3
blacks 3-4, 6-11, 17-18, 27-34, 107-110, 121-129, 134-135, 193, 264, 283-284, 290-291
Blade Runner, 251-254, 256-257, 275
Blazing Saddles, 81
Blow-Out, 101, 187, 190, 191
Blue Collar, 109-110
Blue Velvet, 298-300
Body Double, 188, 190
Body Heat, 156
Bonnie and Clyde, 3, 8, 17, 21-23, 83, 269
Borden, Lizzie, 282-285
Born in Flames, 282, 284-285
Boys in Company C, The, 199-200, 241
Brainstorm, 251
Brando, Marlon, 238
Breaking Away, 111
Brewster McCloud, 9, 270
Brooks, James, 160-164
Brother from Another Planet, 285
buddy films, 136, 149-151
Burnham, Walter Dean, 288
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 150-154
Cabaret, 85
Carnal Knowledge, 151-152, 254-259
Carpenter, John, 184-185, 191
Carrie, 187
Carter, Jimmy, 6, 76-77, 87, 96, 107, 196, 211
Car Wash, 124, 126
Cassavetes, John, 269
Cat People, 185
China Syndrome, The, 10, 104, 241
Chinatown, 81-83, 168
Chicanos, 7, 10, 269
Choose Me, 156-157
Choy, Chris, 283
Cimino, Michael, 84, 200-205, 236
Claudine, 32, 109, 124-125
Clayburgh, Jill, 143-144
Clockwork Orange, A, 42, 48, 174
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 11, 56-57, 236, 258-261
Color Purple, The, 128, 149, 298
Coma, 10, 102
Comes a Horseman, 270
Coming Home, 28, 198-199
communism, 2-3, 10-12, 194-206, 210-216, 227-228, 230
Conan the Barbarian, 225-226
conservatism, xi, 1-5, 9-12, 16-19, 37-77
passim, 87-95, 155-179 passim, 184-266
passim, 270-282, 288-301
conspiracy films, 95-105
Conversation, The, 71
Convoy, 224
Coppola, Francis, 65-75, 236-239, 241-243, 259, 263, 268, 318
Craven, Wes, 182-183
crisis films, 49-75
Cross of Iron, 224
Cutter’s Way, 198-199
Daniel, 275-276
Davis, Angela, 121
Davis, Mike, 134
Davis, Ossie, 122
Davis, Peter, 197-198
Dawn of the Dead, 181-182
Day of the Dead, 181
Death Wish, 89-95
Deer Hunter, The, 11, 57, 77, 194, 200-205, 236, 242-243
Deitch, Donna, 139, 149
Deliverance, 129, 150
Denby, David, 152
De Niro, Robert, 87, 209
De Palma, Brian, 101, 185-191, 236
Derrida, Jacques, vii, 119
Desert Hearts, 139, 166, 298
Desperately Seeking Susan, 139, 147-149
Diary of a Mad Housewife, 28
Dillinger, 224
Dirty Harry, 9, 38-46, 84, 87, 146, 168, 307
disaster films, 52-57
Dixon, Ivan, 32
Dog Day Afternoon, 90, 93
Domino Principle, The, 103
Dressed to Kill, 187-190, 194
dystopia films, 254-258
Earthquake, 52, 55
Eastwood, Clint, 84-85, 129, 132-134, 227
Easy Rider, 6, 8, 17, 23, 150
Electric Horseman, The, 270
Empire Strikes Back, The, 11-12, 228, 232
Escape from New York, 254, 258
E.T., 11-12, 228, 258-263
Every Which Way but Loose, 77, 132-134
Executive Action, 98-100
Exorcist, The, 9, 51, 57-60, 170
fantasy films, 244-265
fascism, 46, 133-134, 194, 205, 212-213, 230, 236-237, 243, 313, 317
feminism, xi, 7-12, 17-18, 27-31, 51, 58-75, 136-170, 185-195, 207, 217-223, 270, 285
film noir, 77, 81-84, 138
Final Countdown, The, 212
F.I.S.T., 110
Flamingo Kid, The, 110, 120
Flashdance, 109, 112, 156
Fonda, Jane, 139, 270-273
Fonda, Peter, 24, 51
Four Friends, 111, 270
French Connection, The, 38-46
Friedkin, William, 38-46, 57-60, 216
Full Metal Jacket, 216
Fun with Dick and Jane, 270
Fury, The, 187
Gator, 132
Gerbner, George, 192
Gilder, George, 220-222
Girlfriends, 143-146
Godard, Jean-Luc, 35
Godfather, The, 9, 51, 66-72, 161, 236-237, 263
Gordon’s War, 122-123
Go Tell the Spartans, 199-200
Graduate, The, 3, 7, 17, 19-21, 23
Great Santini, The, 209
Grease, 11, 77, 86, 156
Green Berets, The, 46, 197
Halloween, 191, 192, 194
Hardcore, 166
Harlan County, U.S.A., 282-284
Hearts and Minds, 197-198
Heaven’s Gate, 236
Heckerling, Amy, 166
Hitchcock, Alfred, 2, 189
Hooper, Tobe, 182-183
Hopper, Dennis, 24, 51
horror films, 168-193
Hughes, John, 120
Hyams, Peter, 256, 266
Independence Day, 145-146
Invasion U.S.A., 227
Jackson, George, 123
Jackson, Jesse, 121
Jaws, 51, 57, 60-65, 168
Johnson, Lyndon, 8-9, 49
Julia, 143
Junior Bonner, 80
Karate Kid, The, 120
Kasdan, Lawrence, 84, 146, 156, 277-279
Killer of Sheep, 284
King, Martin Luther, 30-31
Kiss of the Spider Woman, 147, 166-167
Klute, 98, 138-141
Kramer, Stanley, 32, 103
Kramer versus Kramer, 11, 157, 159, 164, 305
Kubrick, Stanley, 46-48, 172-178, 216
Latino, 282
Lee, Bruce, 227
liberalism, xi, 2-12, 16-33, 76-149 passim, 152-155, 207-210, 216, 244-301 passim
Little Big Man, 17, 19, 269, 275
Loden, Barbara, 8, 28
Logan’s Run, 247-250, 254
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, 165, 186
Lords of Discipline, The, 209-210
Love Story, 38, 151
Lucas, George, 228-236, 243, 259, 317
Lumet, Sidney, 90, 93-94, 101, 275-276
Mackey, Mary, 182
Malick, Terrence, 152
Man Who Loved Women, The, 156
Marable, Manning, 121
Marcuse, Herbert, 8
Martin, 185
M.A.S.H., 17, 19, 197, 270
Mazursky, Paul, 27, 138, 143-145
McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 9, 19, 80-81, 270-271
McCreadie, Marsha, 156
Medium Cool, 6, 34-35
Megaforce, 213
Mellen, Joan, 139
Mickey One, 264
Midnight Cowboy, 6, 17, 20, 26, 150, 217
Mildred Pierce, 138
Milius, John, 84, 213-214, 223-227, 236, 243, 259
Mills, C. Wright, 8
Mishima, 243
Missing, 12, 279-280, 286
Missouri Breaks, The, 80-81, 86, 270
Murphy, Eddie, 128
musicals, 85-86
Nashville, 154, 272-273
Native Americans, 2, 7, 10, 80-81, 183
Natural, The, 156
Network, 10, 101, 104
New Hollywood, 8-9, 17-37, 51
New Left, xi, 4-9, 12, 17-20, 27-39, 48
Newman, Paul, 94
New Right, xi, 5, 10-12, 217-223, 265
New South, 107-109, 129-135
New York, New York, 86
Nichols, Mike, 19-21, 151-152
Nicholson, Jack, 81, 161, 173
Night Moves, 84-85, 269-270
Night of the Living Dead, 179-181
9 to 5, 110, 241, 275
Nixon, Richard, 6, 39, 41, 49, 152, 172
Norma Rae, 110
Norris, Chuck, 214, 227-228
Northern Lights, 284
Obsession, 187
Officer and a Gentleman, An, 12, 156, 207-209
Omen, The, 170-172
On Company Business, 283-284
One Flew Over the Cuckcoo’s Nest, 10, 23, 86
On Golden Pond, 12, 164
Ordinary People, 157, 160, 164
Outland, 254, 256-257
Pakula, Alan, 98-100, 138-141, 315
Parallax View, The, 98-101
Parks, Gordon, 122-123
Patton, 197, 200
Peckinpah, Sam, 39-42, 79-80, 223-224, 226
Penn, Arthur, 21-23, 27, 84-85, 111, 269-270
Perry, Frank, 28
Phantom of the Paradise, 187, 191
Places in the Heart, 165
Platoon, 216, 298
Poitier, Sidney, 126
Polanski, Roman, 81-83
Poseidon Adventure, 52, 54-55
Pretty in Pink, 120
Private Benjamin, 207
Pryor, Richard, 126-128
Quintet, 256, 273
Rafelson, Bob, 23
Raging Bull, 154-155
Raiders of the Lost Ark, 11-12, 57, 77, 228, 304
Rainer, Yvonne, 283
Rain People, The, 66
Reagan, Ronald, 5, 11, 48, 56, 106, 120, 129, 194-195, 206, 212, 214-215, 220, 235-236, 263-264, 290-291, 295, 298-299
Red Dawn, 213-214
Redford, Robert, 100
Reds, 275-276, 286
Return of the Jedi, 11, 228, 232
Return of the Secausus Seven, 276-279
Revolutionary, The, 36, 99
Reynolds, Burt, 94, 129, 131-132
Rich and Famous, 137
Risky Business 7, 11, 165
Ritchie, Michael, 269
River’s Edge, 299-300
Road Warrior, The, 255
Rocky, 77, 86, 109, 111-112, 134
Rocky II, 134, 211-212, 228
Rocky IV, 227-228
Rollerball, 255-256
Rolling Thunder, 198-199
Rollover, 270
Romero, George, 170, 179-185
Rudolph, Alan, 154, 156-157
Rumble Fish, 66, 72-74
Salvador, 12, 282
Saturday Night Fever, 109, 112-119, 305-307
Sayles, John, 275-279, 283, 285
Scarface, 187
Schrader, Paul, 87-89, 109-110, 166, 185, 187, 236, 243
Scorsese, Martin, 86-89, 138, 152, 154-155, 236
Scott, Ridley, 183-184, 251-257, 266
Seidelman, Susan, 139, 147, 149, 283
Serpico, 87
Shaft, 33, 122-123
Shampoo, 152-153
Shining, The, 172-178
“shit,” 113
Silent Running, 251
Silkwood, 12, 104
Sisters, 186-187
Smokey and the Bandit, 130-132
social problem films, 87-95
Soldier’s Story, A, 128
Sounder, 33
Soylent Green, 255
Spies Like Us, 216
Spielberg, Steven, 60-65, 128, 169, 236, 244-245, 258-263, 298, 318
Spook Who Sat by the Door, The, 32-33, 36, 121
Stallone, Sylvestor, 111, 214-215, 227-228, 298
Star Trek, 251
Star Wars, 11-12, 51, 57, 77, 86, 228-236, 275, 308, 317
Stone, Oliver, 216, 282
Straw Dogs, 39-42, 48
Streisand, Barbra, 85
Stripes, 207-208
Sugarland Express, 259
Superfly, 122-123
Superman, 11, 134, 228
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasss Song, 32-33, 121
Taps, 209-210
Taxi Driver, 87-89
technophobia, 245-254
Terminator, The, 254
Terms of Endearment, 11, 160-164
Tesich, Steve, 111
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The, 182
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, 17, 19, 26
Thompson, David, 192
Three Days of the Conder, 100-101
THX 1138, 228, 247-248
Tootsie, 166-167, 228
Top Gun, 297-298
Towering Inferno, The, 52, 55-56, 307-308
Trading Places, 11, 128, 262
Turning Point, The, 77, 143
Twilight’s Last Gleaming, 86
2001: A Space Odyssey, 47, 174
Under Fire, 12, 279-282
Unmarried Woman, An, 138, 143-145
Urban Cowboy, 217
Van Peebles, Melvin, 32-33
Vietnam, 4-11, 18-19, 33-39, 49-51, 95, 172, 191, 194-218
Wanda, 28
War Games, 12, 216, 228
Watergate, 9, 49-50, 78, 86, 95-100
Weil, Claudia, 143-146, 149
Welles, Orson, 82-83
westerns, 2, 77-81, 84, 86, 122
Wexler, Haskell, 34-35, 282
White Lightning, 132
Who’ll Stop the Rain?, 198
Wild Bunch, The, 40, 79-80
Wind and the Lion, The, 224-225
Wood, Robin, 180
working class, the, 10, 20-21, 26, 46-48, 109-135, 205
Year of the Dragon, 236
Zabriskie Point, 36-37
Zoot Suit, 269