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À bout de souffle (1960) 105, 109
A.C. Nielsen Corporation 29
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 67
Action in the North Atlantic (1943) 64
Act of Violence (1948) 65
Adbusters Media Foundation 11
advertising, global reach of 35-6; newsprint 33; television 32
Agency, The (television) 72
Allegmagne année 90 neuf zèro (1990) 106
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 75
Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution (1965) 105-7
American Beauty, The (1961) 23
American Civil Liberties Union 85
American Family, An (television) 55
American Family: The Final Episode (television) 56
American Film Institute 24
American International Pictures 25-7, 42, 117
America’s Atomic Bomb Tests (1998) 138
America’s Disaster: The Pearl Harbor of the Twenty-First Century (2001) 73
Andersen, Hans Christian 140-1
Apocalypse Now (1979) 60, 75
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) 74
Arnelo Affair, The (1947) 8-9
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) 117
Arquette, Courteney Cox 119
Arrivano i titani (1961) 21
Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (2001) 116
Atomic Brain, The (1964) 138
Atomic City, The (1952) 138
Atomic Journeys (1999) 138
Atomic Juggernaut (1971) 138
Atomic Kid, The (1954) 138
Atomic Man, The (1956) 138
Atomic Monster (1953) 138
Atomic Reporter (1991) 138
Atomic Rocketship (1936) 138
Atomic Rulers of the World (1964) 138
Atomic Samurai (1993) 138
Atomic Submarine, The (1959) 138
Atomic War Bride (1960) 77
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) 13
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) 13
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) 5
Baron of Arizona, The (1950) 123
Batman, The (serial) (1943) 76
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000) 115-16
Battle of San Pietro, The (1945) 61
Bed Sitting Room, The (1969) 133
Behind Enemy Lines (2002) 74-5
Behind Locked Doors (1948) 65
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1971) 136
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) 61
Big Brother (television) 51
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) 21
Big Kahuna, The (2000) 115
Big Parade, The (1925) 75
Big Red One, The (1980) 75
Black Hawk Down (2001) 8, 74-6
Bloody of Ghastly Horror (1972) 138
Bloody Mallory (2002) 109
Blue Bird, The (1976) 142-3
Blue Dahlia, The (1946) 65
Blutendes Deutschland (1932) 139
Body Snatcher, The (1945) 123
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 111
Born Losers, The (1967) 34
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) 41
Bourne Identity, The (2002) 18
Bowling for Columbine (2002) 129
British Sounds (1969) 105
Burnett, Frances Hodgson 44-5
Campus on the March (1942) 38
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (1953) 138
Cannes Film Festival 31-2
Care of the Hair and Nails (1951) 38
Century’s Great Catastrophe, The (2001) 73
Charlie Chan in Rio (1941) 64
Charlie’s Angels (2000) 52
Cinema, digitization of 24; effects of terror attack on 59; end of 1; hypocrisy in 62-3; juvenilization of 32
Class of Nuke ‘Em High (1986) 138
clear channel communications 82, 97-8
Collateral Damage (2002) 8, 72
colonialism 90-1; and economic gain 104-5; ideas/images of 105
Come rubammo la bomba atómica (1967) 138
competitive media reporting 29
Complacent Americans, The (record album) 134-5
computer generated imagery 97, 132
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 63
conflict, ethnic 92; religious 92
Coronet Instructional Films 38, 40
Corrections, The (book) 99
Cosmopolitan (magazine) 103-4
Cries and Whispers (1972) 22
culture, brand-conscious 105; capitalist 15; corporate 36; destruction of 109; homogenization of 92; planned obsolesence of 119; popular 119; replacement of indigenous 105; social 2
Dakota Kid, The (1951) 14
Damnation Alley (1977) 16
Dark Blue World (2002) 75
Darklight Digital Film Festival 47
Date With Your Family, A (1950) 38
Dating Dos and Don’ts (1949) 39
Day of Defeat (video game) 125-6
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (1961) 6, 23
Day the Sky Exploded, The (1961) 21, 133
D-Day Minus One (1945) 38
Deconstructing Harry (1997) 110
Deer Hunter, The (1978) 60
Design for Dreaming (1956) 39
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) 72
Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946) 61
Disney Theatrical Productions 97-8
distribution, aggressive 41; digital 27, 31; electronic 25; foreign films 20; limiting 41; need for 122; niche markets 33
Dixon, Wheeler Winston 24
Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 6
Don’t Talk to Strangers (1950) 39
Doom III (video game) 124-5
Down Argentine Way (1940) 64
Downey, Robert Jr. 14, 111
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 45
Drug Abuse: The Chemical Tomb (1969) 39
Dynamic American City, The (1956) 39
Early Clue to the New Direction, An (1967) 141
Early Settlers of New England (1940) 39-40
Earth Dies Screaming, The (1964) 16, 123
Earth vs. the Spider (1958) 18
economic, crises 90; gain 104; globalization 92;
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) 18
Élage de l’Amour (2001) 105
Electronic Frontier Foundation 47
English Children: Life in the City (1949) 40
English Patient, The (1996) 117
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980) 138
Ercole al centro della terra (1961) 21
Eternal Jew, The (1940) 64
Executive Decision (1996) 72
Exercise and Health (1949) 40
Father Knows Best (television) 5
Federal Bureau of Investigation 50; surveillance issues 86
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) 108
Fiend with the Atomic Brain, The (1972) 138
Films, action 22; action comedies 18; actor salaries 119-20; agitprop 106; apocalyptic 3, 96, 123-5, 133-43; art 120; atomic apocalypse 137-8; availability of 40-1; budgets 14, 105, 108, 116; capitalist consumption and 108-10; cartoons 18; classic 41; classroom 49; commercially marginal 122; commercial manipulation of 114-21; commercial shelf life 40; committee-made, 114-20; copyrights and 41; destruction of 3; digital 9-11, 111; documentary 7-8; dubbed 21-2; educational 78; experimental 123, 140; exploitation 26, 60, 135; family 74; fantasy 123, 142; feature 1; feminist 31, 110-13; foreign 20-2, 27, 52, 105-14; gangster 46; hero tales 95; holocaust, 6-8, 96, 133-43; horror 142; indie 120-1; industrial 38, 49; instant classics 21; instructional 38, 50; low-budget 123, 142; mainstream 113; militaristic 64; monster 7; musical 46; neo-noir 8-9, 66; noir 8, 65-6; pacifist 122; political 105; post-apocalypse 8; post-noir 8; promotional 38; propaganda 64, 69, 76, 94; ratings 32; Red Scare 66-7, 71, 77; remakes 12-13, 24; restoration of 41; scenario creation 113; sequels 2, 5, 13; series 5; source 24; sponsored 38, 40; subtitled 21-2; summer 18, 25, 27; teen 28, 108, 113; terrorist 71-2; trailers 127; training 77; war 60-5, 74-6, 95-6
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) 36
Five Graves to Cairo (1943) 65
Flight Simulator (video game) 70
Flying Serpent, The (1946) 49
For Ever Mozart (1996) 107
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) 8
Franier-Deferre, Karine 120
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) 123
Full Monty, The (1997) 19
Gangs of New York (2002) 31
Genbaku Shi: Killed by the Atomic Bomb (1994) 138
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades (GATT) 41
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991) 106
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959) 26
Girl in the Kremlin, The (1957) 67
Girls Intelligence Agency 33
Giulietta degli spiriti (1905) 21
Giv’a 24 Eina Ona (1955) 22
Gleaners & I, The (2000) 18-19
globalization 90; economic 92
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) 7
Gone With the Wind (1939) 118
Great Dictator, The (1940) 64
Great Gilbert and Sullivan, The (1953) 45
Hamati kombola zorria (1952) 138
Harper’s Bazaar (magazine) 104
Harry Potter series 12, 32
Hearts and Minds (1974) 60
Hèlas pour moi (1993) 107
Hercules in the Haunted World (1964) 21
Hideous Sun Demon, The (1959) 49
Hill 24 Doesnt’t Answer (1955) 22
Histoire(s) du cinèma (1989-1994) 106
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) 139)
Hitler: Dead or Alive (1942) 64
Hitler Gang, The (1944) 64
Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend (1933) 139
Hitler’s Children (1942) 64
Hitler’s Madman (1943) 64
Hollow Man, The (2000) 52
Hollywood Ending (2002) 4, 31, 110
Home of the Brave (1949) 60
Honeymoon for Three (1941) 64
House of Dracula (1945) 123
House of Frankenstein (1944) 123
House Un-American Activities Committee 66-7
How We Stole the Atomic Bomb (1967) 138
Il Mulino delle donne di pietra (1960) 41
Il portiere di notte (1974) 139
I Married a Communist (1949) 66
Independence Day (1996) 71-2
Information Times (website) 78-9
In Praise of Love (2001) 105-7
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees 23
Invasion by the Atomic Zombies (1980) 138
Invasion U.S.A. (1985) 124
Invisible Ghost, The (1941) 64
I Shot Jesse James (1949) 123
I soliti ignoti (1958) 21
I Walked with a Zombie (1943) 123
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) 26
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) 26
jenny Jones (television) 51
Jerry Springer (television) 51
Je vous salue, Marie (1985) 106
Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) 49
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) 21
Killer is Loose, The (1956) 40
Knack, The, and How to Get It (1965) 21
L.A. Confidential (1997) 8
La belle Américaine (1961) 23
La caduta degli dei (1969) 139
Lady and the Duke, The (2001) 13
Ladybug, Ladybug (1963) 16
La Femme Infidèl (1969) 12
La Invasión de los Zombies atómicos (1980) 138
La maschera del demonio (1960) 21
La Morte viene dallo spazio (1958) 21
L’Anglaise et le duc (2001) 13
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)26
Last Days of Man on Earth, The (1973) 133
Late Great Planet Earth, The (1979) 16
Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951) 23
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International 69-70
Legally Blonde (2001) 119
Le goût des autres (1999) 112
Le règle du jeu (1939) 63
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000) 18
Letter to Jane (1972) 106
Let There Be Light (1946) 60-1
Lion King, The (musical) 98
Little Mermaid, The (musical) 97
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (1962) 21
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) 10
Lost Continent (1951) 123
Lost Weekend, The (1945) 42
Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 72
Mani di pietra (1986) 138
Man Made Monster (1941) 138
Man Who Haunted Himself, The (1970) 9
marketing, aggressive 41; niche 33
Martha Stewart Living (magazine) 103
Mary Poppins (musical) 98
media, access to 2; alternative 46-7; bans 82; circumvention of controls by 53; conglomerates 15; control by 82, 97; corporate 53; corporate control of 2; dissent in 35; homogenization of news by 114; hyperconglomerization of 34-5, 47, 83; megaconglomerate 105; monopolies 15; propaganda 69-70; radio 46-7; saturation 54
Men Must Fight (1933) 122-3
Middle East Broadcast Center 69-70
Mill of the Stone Women (1960) 41
Minority Report (2002) 18
Mission: Impossible (1996) 26
Mission: Impossible II (2000) 26
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 5
Motion Picture Association of America 33, 93
Mouthpiece, The (1932) 117
multinational corporations 90
Mummy Returns, The (2001) 26
Murderers Among Us, The (1946) 61
Murder Game, The (1965) 123
music, control of 46-7; “mash-up” 48, 50; MP3 downloads 53; radio 46; satellite 82; underground 48
My Life to Live (1962) 105
My Mother-in-Law is an Atomic Bomb (1952) 138
My Son, the Hero (1963) 21
Mysterians, The (1957) 49
Nathalie, agent secret (1959) 138
National Research Group 28
National Rifle Association 42
Natural Born Killers (1994) 111-12
New Guy, The (2002) 8, 17
New World Pictures 22, 142
Nielsen Media Research 29
Night of the Cobra Woman (1972) 142
Night Porter, The (1974) 139
Night to Remember, A (1958) 24
Night Train to Paris (1964) 123
Nippon chinbotsu (1973) 142
Nuit et brouillard (1955) 139
O, The Oprah Magazine 102-3
On the Beach (2000; television) 8
Openlaw: Eldred v. Ashcroft (website) 43
Osboumes, The (television) 51, 55-8
Ozzman Cometh: Greatest Hits, The (album) 57
Panic in the Year Zero! (1962) 42-3
Paramount Communications 94
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing (television) 70-1
Peacemaker, The (1997) 72
Pearl Harbor (2001) 26, 74
Planet of the Apes (2001) 26-7
Planet of the Vampires (1965) 23
Police Tapes, The (1977) 55
political disintegration 92
Post coitum animal triste (1997) 112
Predator (video surveillance) 127
Producers, The (musical) 98
production, boutique 116; in Canada 29; digital 47; globalization of 29
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 31
R.D.A.F. Nuclear Defence: II Hour Now (1959) 138
Red Dragon, The (1945) 71
Red Menace, The (1949) 71
Red Planet Mars (1952) 71
regional coding enhancement (RCE) 52
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (video game) 125
Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter (1991) 138
Roma, città aperta (1945) 21
Rothapfel, Samuel Lionel 9
Rules of the Game (1950) 63
Rush Hour 2 (2001) 13, 26
S.A.-Mann Brand (1933) 139
Safecracker, The (1958) 42
Sally Jesse Raphael (television) 51
Saving Private Ryan (1998) 61, 75
School for Scoundrels (1960) 41
Schwarzenegger, Arnold 114
Scorpion King, The (2002) 8, 12
Season’s Beatings (1999) 112
Secret Garden, The (Burnett) 44, 45
security concerns 59; facial recognition technology 84-5; political right and 60; surveillance 83-6
Serial Metaphysics (1972) 50
Seven Samurai, The (1954) 12
Seventh Victim, The (1943) 123
Sex and the City (television) 72
Shades and Drumbeats (1964) 140
She Had to Say Yes (1933) 118
Sidewalks of New York (2002) 72
Sky Pirate, The (1970) 141
Skyscraper Souls (1932) 118
Smultronstället (1957) 110
social, culture 2; trends 89; values 110, 132
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act 43-8
So Proudly We Hail (1943) 64
Sora no daikaijû Radon (1956) 7
Spectres of the Spectrum (1999) 49
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) 31-2
Springsteen, R.G. “Bud” 41
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) 18
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 5, 9-11, 31
Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace (1999) 99
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 26
Steel Helmet, The (1951) 123
Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The (1953) 45
Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, The (1943) 64-5
Strange Impersonation (1946) 41
Sum of All Fears, The (2002) 8, 74, 138
Surf Nazis Must Die (1987) 116
Surprise Attack on America (2001) 73
Survival Under Atomic Attack (1951) 77, 138
Taste of Others, The (2001) 112
Taylor, Elizabeth 67, 142
Tecnica per un massacro (1967) 138
Teenage Catgirls in Heat (1997) 116
Teenage Research Unlimited 127-8
television, advertising 32; cable 20; hypersurveillant 51; pay 22; propaganda on 69-70; reality 51, 55-6; trash talk shows 51
Tengoku to jigoku (1963) 21
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) 114
Terrore nello spazio (1965) 23
terrorism 59, 67-8, 70-1, 78, 132; counterprogramming to further war on 93; fears of 86-9; international 90; spread of 90; “War on Terror” 91
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) 12, 131
That Touch of Mink (1962) 6
Thelma & Louise (1991) 111
Thin Red Line, The (1998) 75
This Island Earth (1954) 49
This Is Not a Test (1962) 77
Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical) 98
Till the End of Time (1946) 61
Time Machine, The (2002) 8, 72
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1999) 49
Trinity and Beyond (1995) 138
Tromeo and Juliet (1996) 116
24 Hour Party People (2002) 31
Two Girls and a Guy (1997) 14
Unfaithful Wife, The (1969) 11-12
United Dutch Publishers 28, 29
Universal Pictures 12, 32
Unreal Tournament (video game) 126
Usual Suspects, The (1995) 8
Venus Beauty Institute (2000) 112
Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven 28-9
Viskningar och rop (1972) 22
Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962) 105
Wagner, Natasha Gregson 14
War Game, The (1965) 7-8, 78
We Were Soldiers (2002) 8, 60-2, 75
When Worlds Collide (1951) 134
When You Wish (musical) 98
Whole Nine Yards, The (2000) 116
Wild Strawberries (1959) 110
Wind from the East (1969) 105
Wizard of Oz, The (1939) 118
Woman in the Dunes (1964) 21
Yojimbo the Bodyguard (1962) 21
You Can Beat the A-Bomb (1950) 77
Young and the Damned, The (1950) 31
