Movies and American society / edited by Steven J. Ross.

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Going to the movies: early audiences -- Heroes and heroines of their own entertainment: progressive-era cinema -- The rise of Hollywood movies: ideology, and audiences in the roaring twenties -- Who controls what we see? censorship and the attack on Hollywood "immorality" -- Confronting the Great Depression: renewing democracy in hard times -- Alternative cinemas: movies on the margins -- Seeing red: cold war Hollywood -- Eisenhower's America: prosperity and problems in the 1950s -- Black and white in color: race and film in the 1960s and 1970s -- Vietnam and the crisis of American power movies, war, and militarism -- Reagan's America: the backlash against women and men -- Hollywood goes global: the internationalization of American cinema.