Index

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