INDEX
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Academy Award 14, 18, 28, 75, 141, 148, 155, 180, 192, 198–9
Across the River and Into the Trees 123
Adorno, Theodor W. 25, 70n.3
African-American 2, 31, 34, 73, 87, 99, 112–13, 142, 165, 171, 178, 181
All That Jazz 197
Altman, Bernard Clement (‘B.C.’) 2, 90
Altmanesque 5–10, 35, 46, 84, 95
Altman, Helen (née Matthews) 90
Altman, Michael 25
Altman, Stephen 120, 135, 160, 177, 186
American anti-intellectualism 96
American Dream 6, 37, 43, 81, 106, 148, 151
American electoral politics 96
American literary Naturalism 6, 10n.3
An American Family 84
Anderson, Edward 52–54
An Easter Egg Hunt 104
An Unfinished Life 192, 193
art cinema 1, 21, 118
art-house 13, 165
A Shortage of Engineers (novel) 192
as they are actually playing 172
A Perfect Couple 10, 93–5, 183, 195
Apocalypse Now 151, 173
A Prairie Home Companion 6, 10, 196–9
Aria 127–8
Astrodome 30–3, 65, 96
auteur 16, 17, 23; auteur-centred 2; criticism 1; theory 1, 10n.1
authoritarianism 25, 70n.3, 82–4, 94, 114, 132, 201; authoritarian-corporatist values 26, 76
avant-garde 13
A Wedding 3, 6, 10, 83–8, 89–91, 93–6, 130n.15, 132, 162, 164, 180, 183, 187, 197
 
Badlands 55
BAFTA 75, 148, 192
Balaban, Bob 185–6, 192
Barhydt, Frank 90, 96–7, 140, 150–1, 157, 164–5, 167
Basements 123–6
Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, The 111
Baudrillard, Jean 99
‘B.C.’ see Altman, Bernard Clement (‘B.C.’)
Beatty, Warren 34, 54, 55, 71n.17
Beckett, Samuel 116, 126, 162
Belafonte, Harry 2, 142, 166–7, 192
Bergman, Ingmar 13–14, 18–19, 184
Beyond Therapy 127
Biarritz (screenplay) 119
blockbuster 82, 89, 104, 111, 141, 172
Body Heat 173
Boffety, Jean 53, 91, 174
Bogdanovich, Peter 45, 57, 74
Bonnie and Clyde 23, 32, 52, 54–7, 72n.40, 105n.2
box office 14, 16, 28, 33, 43, 45, 52, 57, 69, 82, 93, 95, 100, 104, 141, 148, 155, 164, 177, 181, 192–3, 196
Brackett, Leigh 45–50
Branagh, Kenneth 172–3
Breakfast of Champions (novel) 19
Brewster McCloud 3, 10, 29–33, 36, 52, 65, 117, 132, 185
‘Brewster McCloud’s Flying Machine’ (screenplay) 30
buddy film 59, 61–2, 76
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson 10, 19, 62–9, 83, 88n.6, 98
Buffalo Bill Cody 62–9
Burt, George 115
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 40, 61
Bullitt 32
Byron, Stuart 21
 
Cahiers du cinéma 9
Caine Mutiny Court Martial, The 128–9
Caine Mutiny, The (novel) 120
California Split 10, 57–62, 88n.6, 93, 96, 187
Calvin Company 4, 159
Campbell, Neve 193–5
Cannes Film Festival 16, 57, 140, 141, 148, 165
Cannon, Doran William ‘Billy’ 30–1
Cape Fear 173–4
capitalism 4, 7, 30, 37, 78, 86, 92, 117, 170; American rentier-capitalist 31, 39, 45; consumer-capitalism 83, 161; corporate 148; hucksterism 77; ideology 9; modernity 10n.4, 77, 187; monopoly-style 71n.23; patriarchal 6, 40, 109, 192
Carter, Jimmy 89, 96–7
Carver, Raymond 149–58
Catholicism 3–5, 79
Chandler, Raymond 45–6, 49, 51, 72n.35
Changwei Gu 174
Chetwynd, Lionel 90
Christie, Agatha 185, 188
Christie, Julie 17, 34, 123, 142
Cincinnati Kid, The 59
Cinecom 111
cinéma vérité 131
cinemobile 53
Cineplex movie 82, 111
Civil Rights 23, 110, 132
class: antagonism 188; barrier 191; British class 185, 187–8; conflict 84; consciousness 86; cross-class 192; denial 95; identity 113; imbalances 184; inter-class 95, 152; middle-class 2, 34, 70n.3, 101, 112, 135, 152; oppressed 188; privilege 28; professional-managerial 78, 117; resentment 54; selfish 87; slave 89; solidarity 192; stratification 7; upper-class 112–13, 125, 185; upper-middleclass 156; working-class 34, 81, 109, 112, 124–5, 135, 149, 152, 156
Cody, William F. see Buffalo Bill Cody
Cohen, Leonard 36, 100
Cohn, Sam 90, 100
Cold War 25
Columbia Pictures 58, 72n.41, 100
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 6, 106–11, 115, 118–19, 120, 199n.4
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (play) 10, 106
commercialism 8, 78, 97
Commonwealth United 14, 16
Company, The 10, 192–6, 197
Considine, John 85, 88n.6
Cookie’s Fortune 177–82
Coppola, Francis Ford 4, 151, 172
Countdown 4
counterculture 28–30, 35, 44–5, 54, 150, 169; American 89; bohemian 95; fantasy 55; musical commune 94; youth 16, 23, 30, 110
country music 73–4, 76, 123, 164, 193
Cox, Paul 134
 
DarbeeVision 194
‘Dark Horse, The’ (tv episode) 132
Dean, James 4, 107–11
Debord, Guy 30
Delinquents, The 4
Dennis, Sandy 14, 17, 94, 107, 199n.4
Depression-era/Great Depression 52–4, 165, 167, 172, 187
diegetic music 32, 185
director-as-author 2
Dog Day Afternoon 61
Dooley, Paul 93–6, 100
Doonesbury 131
Double Indemnity 173
Downey Jr., Robert 174
Drama Desk Award 111
Dr. Strangelove 25
Dr. T & the Women 182–5
Dumb Waiter, The (play) 123–6, 130n.12
Dunn, Andrew 186, 194
Dust Bowl 53
Duvall, Robert 4, 24, 74, 173, 176
Duvall, Shelley 19, 22n.7, 32, 52, 55, 67, 75, 94, 100, 199n.4
 
Easy Rider 23, 61
Ebert, Roger 45, 57, 88n.1, 104, 127, 155, 184, 196, 199
ego/egotism/superego 13, 21, 38, 49, 52, 65, 67–8, 70n.3, 79, 84, 109, 139, 143, 180
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 96–7, 110, 116–17, 161–2
Entertainment Tonight 160–1
Ericksen, Leon 15, 18, 35, 70n.10, 72n.39
Evans, Robert 100
 
Factor, Donald 14, 16
Farber, Stephen 21
Feiffer, Jules 100, 104
Fellowes, Julian 185–8, 192
female: characters 85; complexity 184; identity 12–21; neurotic 6; nudity 157; objectification 184; protagonists 6, 53, 79, 107, 171; sexuality 182; subculture 44
feminism 1, 12, 27, 61, 157; Marxist-feminist 21; woman-centred 104, 107, 118
femme fatale 173, 175
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 183, 187
Fleischer, Max 102
Fool for Love 10, 119–23, 124, 178
Ford, John 3, 41, 53, 67
Forman, Milos 19, 75
Forrest Gump 82
Foster, David 34, 43, 71n.13
Freeman, Gillian 14, 104
French New Wave 23, 91
FSA photographers 53
Full Metal Jacket 115
 
gambling 2, 6, 37, 57–62, 91, 93, 165, 166, 178
Gelbart, Larry 29
Gemeinschaft 7–8, 44, 77, 84–5, 94, 101–2, 172, 179, 187, 193, 198; African-American 181; Altmanesque Gemeinschaft 35; Old World 87
Gemeinschaftsgefuhl 80
genre: anti-genre 25–6, 31, 45–6, 51, 54, 60, 72n.32, 95; anti-war drama 111; cliché of the 32; film 5, 10, 25–8, 34, 70n.4; formulaic genre 89; gangster 48, 59, 170; inter-class romance 95; revisionist romantic comedy 96; revisionist western 18, 34, 62, 69; parody 47, 69, 92, 144, 152, 180; romantic comedy 93–6, 182; science fiction 91, 96; sex as an anti-genre 26; thriller 17, 22n.3, 32, 82, 90, 119, 146, 172–4, 176–7; war films 26, 113; western 18, 20, 34,–40, 42, 45, 62–4, 66, 68–9, 72n.42, 75, 120, 122, 132, 142, 197
Gesellschaft 7–8, 10, 25, 30, 43, 76, 79, 82–3, 91, 101–2, 104, 114, 125–6, 142, 157, 163; America 78, 87, 172; dehumanisation 25; Hobbesian Gesellschaft 93; military 113; modernity 123
Giant 107–8
Gingerbread Man, The 172–8, 183, 195, 199n.n.n.2, 3, 4
‘Girlfriend Factor, The’ (tv episode) 133
Giroux, Henry 82
Golden Globes 75, 148, 155, 192
Goldman, William 119
Gosford Park 6, 10, 185–92, 193–4
Gothic horror 16
Gould, Elliott 24–5, 45–6, 48, 58, 61, 142, 175, 192
Graczyk, Ed 107, 110
Graduate, The 23, 143
Grapes of Wrath 53
Green Berets, The 28
Grisham, John 172–5
Grossbach, Robert 192
Guardian, The (newspaper) 134, 196
 
Harders, Robert 115–16, 119, 123
Harmetz, Aljean 2
Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged (novel) 84
Hayes, Clyde (Al Hayes) 173–4
Hays Code 23, 70n.8, 170
HBO 118–19, 131–4
HealtH 6, 10, 96–9, 100–11, 118, 131, 134, 161
Heaven’s Gate 104
hedonism 5, 29, 37, 101, 157
Hemingway, Ernest 49, 72n.35, 123
heroism 28, 29, 31, 36, 42, 54, 55, 70n.5, 103, 117, 171, 195; anti-hero 6, 25, 43, 63; cop-hero 83; cult-hero 110; heroic hyper-individualism 6; individual 4, 55; macho 20; male hero 38, 59, 184; martyrdom 54; self-concept 8; tragic 65; western hero 64, 66
High Noon 42
Hill, Walter 90, 140
Himmel über Berlin, Der (Wings of Desire) 197
hippie 16, 29, 48, 76, 95, 175
Hollywood: Altman’s exile from 10, 118; Altman’s rejection of 1; classicist norms 1, 5; corporatism 83; genre conventions 1, 24, 51; heroic self-concept 8; Hollywood Renaissance 24, 82, 89, 141; Hollywood Ten 69n.1; as a metaphor 148
homophobia 32, 108, 110, 114
homosexuality 14, 27, 113–14
Hooker, Richard see Hornberger, Heister Richard ‘Dick’, M.D.
‘Hooray for Hollywood’ (song) 47, 51
Hornberger, Heister Richard ‘Dick’, M.D. 24
Howe, Desson 155
Hustler, The 59
 
Icarus 2–30, 33
identity 2, 14, 107–8, 132, 176–7; class 113; female 9, 12–23; fixed 181; gender 108; individual 10; male psychosexual 111; paradigm 52; sense of 103, 162; sexual 113
Ieri, oggi, domain (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow) 163
Images 6, 10, 12–13, 17–18, 45, 110, 135
Indians (play) 62
ironic symbolism 37
It Happened One Night 95, 162
 
James Dean Story, The 4, 110
Jaws 82–3, 89
jazz 2, 150, 166, 169, 172; actors 172; clubs 165; filmology 172; musicians 166, 169, 172; period 164–6; purist 172
Jazz Singer, The 48
Jung, Carl Gustav 13
 
Kael, Pauline 57, 92
Kansas City 2, 10, 159, 164–72, 181, 192
Kansas City 2–4, 90, 164–9, 171–2
Keillo, Garrison 4, 196–8
Kelly’s Heroes 25
Kissinger, Henry 116–17
Kolker, Robert 7, 10n.4, 29, 44, 47, 51, 55, 65, 71n.22, 72n.n.33, 37, 78, 84, 87, 93, 98, 107, 110
Kopit, Arthur Lee 62–5, 68
Korean War 24–6, 29
Kubrick, Stanley 24–5, 115
 
Lacan, Jacques/Lacanian 22n.2, 107
Ladd Jr., Alan 19, 96, 99
Lake Wobegon Days (novel) 196
Lardner Jr., Ring 24, 69n.1
Lasch, Christopher 84, 157
LA Short Cuts see Short Cuts
Laundromat, The 118–19
Laurentiis, Dino de 19, 62
Lépine, Jean 136, 143
liberal Democrat 8, 79, 96
Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh, The (documentary) 134
Lion’s Gate Films 28, 58, 94, 104, 193
Little Bighorn 64, 67
Litto, George 30, 34, 45, 53, 58
Lohmann, Paul 58
Lone Star 104, 106
Long Goodbye, The 10, 45–52, 72n.39, 138, 195, 199n.4
Long Goodbye, The (novel) 45
Long Wharf Theater 111
Los Angeles 17, 19, 24, 28, 46, 59, 94, 99, 101, 105n.3, 106, 115, 140–1, 150–1, 155–6, 158n.6, 177, 199; postmodern landscape 47
Los Angeles Actors’ Theater (aka Los Angeles Theater Center) 106, 115
Lucas, George 4, 89
Lust for Life 134
 
Majors, Glendora (‘Glen’) 2
Malcolm, Derek 134
Malick, Terrence 4, 55
Mandel, Johnny 25
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 41
Marxism 2, 8, 21
masculinity: agency 184; Alpha male 146; degraded 115; desire 152; guilty male 3; hero 38, 171, 184; heterosexual 157; ideology 27; machismo 12; male-centred 19; male-dominated 77; male drama 111; male-oriented 12, 34; manhood 26, 42, 59; masculinity-affirming potential 26, 27; mid-century style 49; misogynistic males 80; psychosexual identity 111; as a refusal 3; remasculinising 27
M*A*S*H 3, 10, 12, 17, 24–9, 29, 34, 36, 45, 53, 75, 141, 147–8, 151, 157, 192, 196
M*A*S*H (tv series) 29
MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (novel) 24
Maslin, Janet 164
masochism 60
mass celebrity culture 77
mass consumer society 54
Mayflower campus 65–7, 96
McCabe (novel) 34
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 3, 10, 17, 34–45, 46, 51, 52–3, 62, 69, 72n.34, 93, 102, 105n.5, 120, 135, 169
McCarthy, Todd 155
McGilligan, Patrick 2–3, 7, 14, 17, 30–1, 36, 44–5, 52–3, 58, 61, 73, 83, 85, 88, 93, 100–1, 123, 126
Mercer, Johnny 47
MGM 30–1, 33, 57–8, 104
Midnight Cowboy 23, 61, 100
Miles, Richard (aka Peter) 14
Mileti, Nick J. 111
military culture 111, 114
Miramax Films 160, 192–3, 197
mirror images 107, 168, 192
mise-en-scène 6, 53, 91, 97, 107, 122
misogyny 27, 153, 157, 184
Model’s Handbook, The 159
mosaics 10, 63, 97, 150, 155, 160, 196
MPAA 23
Mr. Roberts 25
myth/mythology 63, 65–6, 69, 95, 107, 135; bourgeois 6, 65; crime 55; deconstruct the 9; demythification 135; Greek 29–30, 197; monomyth 70n.5; myth-making 65; old folk 54; paradigms 162; romantic 39, 40, 57, 134
 
narcissism 29, 17, 142, 170, 182; in American society 157
narrative 1, 5–6, 29, 47–9, 51, 54, 57, 61, 78, 93, 121, 143, 147, 155, 185, 194, 195; American 76; audience-tested 144; cinematic 6, 14, 33; classical 21; of Desire 199n.3; Hollywood 136; ideological 83; no narrative 164; romance 95; sub-narrative 78
Nashville 6, 10, 62, 73–83, 85, 87–8, 88n.n.3, 4, 94, 96, 102, 105n.8, 118, 123, 131, 142, 151, 160–2, 164, 193, 197
Nashville 12 123
Native Americans 63, 65
Naughton, Edmund 34, 37, 43, 71n.n.20, 26, 72n.30
Neal, Patricia 178, 180
Network 98
New American Cinema 4, 12–13, 24, 89, 105n.2
Newman, Paul 62, 64, 69, 91, 192–3
New York 4, 30, 41, 63, 66, 100, 106, 107, 111, 115, 118–19, 140, 149, 177, 185, 192–93, 197
New York Times (newspaper) 62, 107, 115, 133, 155, 164, 172
Nicholls, Allan 66, 85, 88n.2, 91, 94–5, 100, 115
Night of the Hunter, The 174
nihilistic romanticism 54
Nilsson, Harry 101–2, 104
Nixon, Richard 73, 79, 88n.4, 115–18, 129n.n.6, 7, 130n.8
noir 46; artificiality of 47; bête noir 98, 116; chiaroscuro 46; classic 46–8, 50, 173; gangsters 48; gothic 174; neo-noir 171, 173
Norman, Marsha 118
No Time for Sergeants 25
 
O.C. and Stiggs 126
Oceans 11 59
Odd Man Out 90
Overboard 95
 
Panorama Studios 15
Paramount 89, 100–1, 104
Parker, Charlie (‘Bird’) 166
pastel look 46, 120
patriarchy 10, 20, 77, 94, 107, 109–10, 113, 119; patriarchal society 43–4
patriotism 25, 102, 111; anthems 197; old-fashioned 31; patriotic propaganda 28
phallocentricism 12, 40, 42, 59
Penn, Arthur 32, 52, 54, 56, 72n.40, 100, 105n.2
period film 53
Peroni, Geraldine 148, 177, 195
Perreau Saussine, Gerald see Miles, Richard (aka Peter)
Persona 12–14, 18–19, 21
PHC see A Prairie Home Companion
Pinter, Harold 123–6, 130n.12
Player, The 10, 140–8, 155, 160, 164–5, 173
Player, The (novel) 140
pop culture 65, 78, 88n.2
Popeye 10, 100–4, 105n.9, 106, 111, 120, 124, 127, 148
postmodernity 5, 50, 52, 195; America 157; dreamscape 14; hell 92; irony 132; landscape 47; negation 93; parody 69
Precious Blood 106
Presbyterian Church 34–8, 40–2, 44, 102, 180
Prêt-à-Porter 6, 10, 159–65
Pretty Woman 95, 145, 182, 183
psychological thriller 17, 22n.3
 
Quintet 10, 89–93, 96, 101, 105n.2, 131
 
Rabe, David 111–12
racism 40, 77, 167, 170, 172; crypto-racist 89; legacy 170; propaganda 170; stereotypes 68
Ragtime 19
Rake’s Progress, The 127–8
Rapp, Anne 178, 181–2, 184
Rattlesnake in a Cooler (play) 106, 158n.5
Ray, Nicolas 52
Reagan, Ronald 83, 89–90, 96–7, 118, 126, 143
Realism 6, 28, 150; graphic 184; psychological 141
règle du jeu, La (The Rules of the Game) 188
religiosity 26, 108, 110
Republicanism 76, 96–7, 117
Resnick, Patricia 19, 85, 90, 144
right-wing 54, 89, 97, 99; ideology 32; nostalgia 98; politics 73
Robbins, Tim 141–2, 147–8, 152, 162
Room, The (play) 123–6, 130n.12
Rosher Jr., Charles 85
Roth, Tim 135
Round Midnight 172
Rudolph, Alan 64, 144, 192
 
Salomé (play) 178, 180–1
San Francisco 24, 32, 71n.19, 99–100, 119, 128, 160
Sarris, Andrew 1, 184
Saturday Night Fever 95
Scarecrow 61
Schrader, Paul 4, 46–7
Scorsese, Martin 4, 173–4
Searchers, The 67
Secret Honor 10, 115–20, 123, 131
Secret Honor: The Last Testament of Richard M. Nixon (play) 115
self-: assured 20, 97, 142, 183; aware 6, 80, 134; centred 62, 102, 157; congratulation 30, 40; conscious 8, 156,–7, 164, 187; deconstructive 27, 147; defence 55, 177; destructive 61, 93, 126; discipline 3, 194; esteem 38, 117; exile 43, 118; expressive 59, 145; illumination 109; image 2, 18, 65, 79; interest 42, 44, 82–3; mythologising 64; parody 92; powered 29, 33; reflexive 28, 97, 102, 110, 138, 143, 147, 158n.5; respect 80, 187; sacrifice 109; transformation 31, 180
Self, Robert T. 1–2, 21, 65, 108, 162, 181
sexuality 48, 108, 161, 183; female 182; sexual humiliations 157; sexual identity 113; sexual repression 17, 114, 138; sexual victim 80
Sgt. Pepper 95
Shepard, Sam 119, 121–2, 152–3
Short Cuts 6, 10, 140–2, 148–59
Short Cuts: Selected Stories (book) 150
Shulgasser, Barbara 160
Sitting Bull 63–9
Songs of Leonard Cohen (album) 36
soundtrack 36, 44, 55, 82, 95, 109, 128, 164, 174, 184
Spielberg, Steven 4, 55, 57–8, 60, 82–3, 89
Star Wars 89, 99
Stevenson, Adlai 96–7
Stick and Bones 111
Sting, The 58, 59
Streamers 10, 111–15, 118, 120, 129n.4, 160
Streamers (play) 111
Sugarland Express, The 55, 58
Sutherland, Donald 24–5
Sweethaven 100–4
 
Tanner ’88 10, 131–4, 142, 164, 183
Tavernier, Bernard 172
Tender is the Night 187
Tewkesbury, Joan 41, 52–3, 57, 73, 79, 123, 144
Thank God It’s Friday 95
That Cold Day in the Park 6, 10, 12, 14–17, 30, 35–6, 69, 94, 104, 110
That Cold Day in the Park (novel) 14
They Live by Night 52
Thieves Like Us 10, 52–7, 73, 91, 167, 170, 174, 199n.4
Thieves Like Us (novel) 52
Third and Oak: The Laundromat 118
Third Man, The 90
Thompson, David 13, 17, 29, 45–7, 52–3, 58, 61, 74–5, 111, 119, 126, 129n.2, 135, 141, 144, 148, 160–1, 165–6, 171–2, 174–5, 178, 182–6, 188, 191, 193–4
3 Women 6, 10, 12–13, 18–22, 83, 85, 87, 110, 120, 184
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 61
To Kill a Mockingbird 173, 181
Tolkin, Michael 140–4, 146, 148
Tönnies, Ferdinand 7, 163
transsexuality 98, 108
Trudeau, Garry 131–2, 133
True Grit 40
Turner, Barbara 193–4
Turner, Michael 17, 35, 44, 71n.14
TV episodes directed by Robert Altman (Bonanza, Bus Stop, Combat, Millionaire, The, Troubleshooters, U.S. Marshal, Whirlybirds) 4 20th Century Fox 19, 24, 69n.1, 85, 90, 93, 96, 99, 111
Two by South 106
 
United Artists 4, 45, 73–4
Universal Pictures 58
Utopia 10n.3, 29, 31, 78, 95, 179, 181
 
Vancouver 14–15, 17, 28, 35, 71n.14
Venice Film Festival 111, 115, 155
Verfremdungseffekt 99
victimhood 28, 175–6
Vietnam Trilogy 111
Vietnam War 25, 29, 62–3, 65, 81, 110–11, 112, 115, 117, 129n.7; allegory 151; anti-Vietnam War 23, 62; post-Vietnam 44, 65, 89, 110
vignette 26, 77, 150–2, 162–3, 169; behind-the-scenes 69, 195; comic 24, 65
Vincent & Theo 10, 134–40, 195
visual iconography 53
 
Waiting for Godot 126
Walsh, Joseph ‘Joey’ 57–8, 60–1
Walt Disney Productions 104, 181, 197
Warner Bros./Seven Arts 4, 34, 35, 36, 140
Warner, Jack 4
Washington Post, The (newspaper) 155, 157, 162
Watergate 74, 110, 117
Wayne, John 28, 34, 41, 112
Weinstein, Harvey 160, 192
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (short stories) 149
Wild Bunch, The 40
Wild West Show 63–8
William Morris Agency 140
Williams, John 18, 47
Williams, Robin 100–1
Wizard of Oz, The 31, 184
Wood, Robin 87–8
Working Girl 95
World War II 4–5, 72n.42, 96, 112, 187–8; post-war 4–5
Wouk, Herman 128
Wyatt, Justin 16, 33, 96
 
Yig Epoxy, The 19
York, Susannah 17
 
zeitgeist 54, 110; American 84
Zemeckis, Robert 82
Zinnemann, Fred 42
Zsigmond, Vilmos 18, 35, 46, 53, 72n.39