Sadržaj:
  • Introduction: It's only a movie
  • I. Concensus and its discontents
  • - Chapter 1. Eho's in charge here?
  • We the Jury: 12 angry men
  • Docs and robbers: Panic in the streets
  • The local hero: My darling Clementine
  • The outsider: High noon
  • - Chapter 2. The organization man goes to war
  • - Must we conform?
  • Babies and bombers: Stragegic air command
  • The men in the gray flannel uniforms: Twelve o'clock high and Flying leathernecks
  • A different bugler: From here to eternity
  • At war with army: The court martial of Billy Mitchell
  • Prisoners of war: Attack!
  • - II. Us and them
  • Chapter 3. Pods and blobs
  • The other Americans
  • The russians are coming, aren't they? Them! and The thing
  • The mind managers: Invasion of the body snatchers
  • Friends in high places: The day the earth stood still and It came from the outer space
  • - Chapter 4. The enemy within
  • - Friendly fersuasion
  • Public enemies: On the waterfront, Underworld USA, The big heat, and Force and evil
  • Wild in the streets: Rebel without a cause, Blackboard jungle, I was a teenage werewolf, and The space children
  • Cochise, Si! Geronimo, No! Broken arrow, The searchers, and Apache
  • - III. Male and female
  • - Chapter 5. All in the family
  • - Coming home
  • Bringing up father: Red river
  • Mother knows best: Giant
  • The taming of the shrew: Mildred Pierce
  • I remember Poppa: Executive suite
  • The right man for the job: The fountainhead
  • The man in the red flannel shirt: All that heaven allows
  • - Conclusion: Coming apart