Table of Contents:
  • Politics and cinema
  • The candidate
  • The man
  • The godfather
  • Dog day afternoon
  • The conversation
  • The front
  • Lenny
  • The assassination of Trotsky
  • Sacco and Vanzetti
  • The case of the Naves brothers
  • State of siege
  • The Mattei affair
  • The sorrow and the pity
  • The nasty nazis: history or mythology
  • Slaughterhouse-five
  • Promised lands
  • Hearts and minds
  • Fascinating fascism meets leering leftism
  • The politics of pornography
  • Cock-tale parties on the East Side
  • Porn versus Puritanism
  • Semiotics and cinema
  • My Uncle Antoine
  • Marilyn by Norman Mailer
  • His picture in the parers: a speculation on celebrity in America, based on the life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
  • Your show of shows revisited
  • Sixties cinema: zoomshots, jumpcuts, freeze frames, and girls, girls, girls!
  • Avant-garde films are more boring than ever.