Table of Contents:
“…Melling -- The political economy of Hollywood : the studio system / Richard Maltby -- The nation in crisis : Hollywood's response to the 1940s / Ralph Willet -- Made for each other : the melodrama of Hollywood and the House Committee on un-American Activities, 1947 / Richard Maltby -- The 1950s : the case of Elia Kazan and On the Waterfront / Brian Neve -- A growing independence / Philip Davies -- The American western and American society / Christopher Frayling -- The working class goes to Hollywood / Leonard Quart and Albert Auster -- Blacks in American film / Mary Ellison -- Keystone to Kojak : the Hollywood cop / Robert Reiner -- Blood on the Nash Ambassador : cars in American films / Eric Mottram.…”