Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film

Index

Adams, John, 222 Adventure, 94 African Americans, 180; critical commentary on films about, 215–16; in film, xxiii, xxiv, 112, 124–27, 131– 32, 166–69, 174, 202, 208–13 Agee, James, 82–83, 130 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 5 Air Force, 71, 80–81, 84–85 Alice Adams, 31, 50–51 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 203, 215 All in the Family, 181 All the Right Moves, 192–94, 214, 226 Altman, Robert, 183 American Legion, 142 American Madness, 38 American Romance, 73–74, 85–86 Anderson, Sherwood, 6 Angels with Dirty Faces, 15–17 Anna Lucasta, 119 anti-Semitism, 123, 131 Atlantic Charter, 56 Atlas, Charles, 5 Avildsen, John, 195 Baby Face, 9, 27–29, 50, 226 Barber, Benjamin, xxxi–xxxii, xxxiii Basinger, Jeanine, xxiii Bataan, 60, 80, 85 Battleground, 123–24 Bell, Thomas, 101 Bendix, William, 79 Benjamin, Walter, xxvi Bennett, Tony, xviii, xxvii Bergman, Andrew, 7, 27 Best Years of Our Lives, 96, 99–101, 128, 129 Bhabha, Homi K., xxvi Biberman, Herbert, 142 Blackboard Jungle, The, 166 Black Fury, 18, 21–25, 35, 47, 48, 195, 226 Black Legion, 35 blacklist, Hollywood, 135 Blue Collar, 198–99 Blue Dahlia, The, 116, 117, 129–30 Body and Soul, xvii–xviii, 111, 130, 226 Bogart, Humphrey, 17, 114, 117, 135 Bonnie and Clyde, 184 Borgnine, Ernest, 151, 153 Born on the Fourth of July, 207–8, 216–17 boxing films, 10, 17–18, 111, 113–14, 154–56, 158–59, 190–92, 194–95 Boyz N the Hood, 208, 210–11, 213, 216 Brando, Marlon, 147, 149, 154–55, 171 277 INDEX Breen, Joseph, 8, 22, 117, 150, 151 Bridges, Lloyd, 139 Bunstein, Andrew, xxx Burkhart, Allen, 52 Cabin in the Cotton, 18–19, 40, 47 Cagney, James, 13, 15, 18, 50, 121, 122 Canby, Vincent, 214, 217 Cantor, Norman, xxiv capitalism, criticism of, xxx, 10, 21, 26, 40, 90, 108–15, 142–43, 158–60 Capra, Frank, 35–41, 51–52, 108–11, 127–28, 202 Carney, Raymond, 37 Casablanca, 60 Cassavetes, John, 166 Catered Affair, A, 151–53, 171 Catholic Church, 8, 189 Catholic Legion of Decency, 8, 150, 170 censorship, 8–9, 51–52, 92, 102, 113, 162; of Double Indemnity, 66–67; of gangster films, 11, 12–13; of moral transgressions, 114, 115, 118, 121; and sexuality, 29, 123, 149–51, 163; and women’s roles, 29, 30, 31 Champ, The, 18 Champion, The, 113–14 Chandler, Raymond, 116 Chaplin, Charlie, 7 Chauncey, George, 93 City of Conquest, 18 Clash by Night, 144–46, 171, 226 class conflict, 18–26, 34–36, 64–70 Clecak, Peter, 181–82 Coal Miner’s Daughter, 192–93, 218 Cohen, Lizabeth, 4 Colbert, Claudette, 76, 78 collective farming, 20–21 Coming Home, 204, 218 Committee for the First Amendment, 135 communism, 222; fear of, 133, 134– 35, 177–78 Communist Party, 111–12; and film industry, 134–35 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), xx, 1–2, 3, 89 consumerism, 4, 135–36 containment culture, 133–38; and breakdown of community life, 160–66; critical commentary on, 169–74; as manifested in film, 138– 43, 174–75; marriage as presented in, 143–53; and racial issues, 166– 69; transformation of the workingman in, 153–58 Cool Hand Luke, 184 Cooper, Gary, 64 Coppola, Francis Ford, 183 Corwin, Norman, 57 Crawford, Joan, 32 Cripps, Thomas, 124, 166 Crossfire, 123, 131, 166 Crowther, Bosley, 84 Cruise, Tom, 194 Daily Worker, 47–48, 84 Davis, Bette, 19, 30, 151, 153 Dead End, 17, 48 Dead Reckoning, 117 Death Wish, 184 Deer Hunter, The, 204–6, 216–17, 218 de Mille, Cecil B., 134 democracy: and liberalism, xxix– xxxiii, 1–2, 6, 17–18, 36, 45–53, 177–78, 218; as portrayed in film, xx–xxi, 34, 35, 40, 79, 98, 109; and the war effort, 55–57 De Niro, Robert, 191 Denning, Michael, xx, xxi, xxii, 9, 44 Depression, as depicted in film, 19–20, 33–34, 41–44, 45–53 Dewey, John, xxxi Dirty Harry, 184 Doherty, Thomas, 60–61 Do the Right Thing, 208, 211, 212, 213, 216 Double Indemnity, 66–67, 85, 116 278 INDEX Duck Soup, 7 Dunn, James, 105 Early, Gerald, 190 Edge of the City, 166–67, 174 Face in the Crowd, A, 158, 159–60 fascism, 64–65, 73 Father Knows Best, 136 Feldman, Charles, 149–50 Fellig, Arthur “Weegee,” 120 Field, Sally, 201, 202 Fighting...