Index

Academy Award (Oscar)

Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies

Adams, President John Quincy

Adam’s Rib

Africa (Africans)

Afro-American, (blacks)

Ahab, Captain

Aladdin

Aliens

Alighieri, Dante

Allen, Debbie

Allen, Karen

Alter, Jonathan

Always

Amarcord

Amazing Stories

American Antislavery Society

American Indian

American Museum of Natural History

Amistad

Amistad Committee

Amity, New York

Ancién Regime

Andrews, Inez

Anglican

Ansen, David

Antoinette, Marie

Anxiety of Influence, The

Apocalypse Now

Ark of the Covenant

Armstrong, Louis

As I Lay Dying

Asia

Atlanta (Georgia)

Attenborough, Richard

Auden, W. H.

Aurora

Auschwitz concentration camp (Poland)

Babel, Tower of

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Back to the Future I,

Back to the Future I–III,

Balaban, Bob

Baldwin, James

Ballard, J. G.

Barney

Barrie, James M.

Barthes, Roland

Barton Fink

Barzun, Jacques

Batman

Battle of Marathon

Baudrillard, Jean

Bechet, Sidney

Becker, Ernest

Beethoven, Ludwig von

Belgium (Belgian)

Bellah, Robert

Benchley, Peter

Benin

Bernstein, Michael André

Bible

“Black Bottom,”

Black History Month

Black Mutiny

Blackmun, Supreme Court Justice Harry

Blacks (see Afro-American)

Bligh, Captain

Bloom, Harold

Bly, Robert

Bogan, Lucille (Bessie Jackson)

Bogart, Humphrey

Bolingbroke, Lord

Bond, Ward

Book of Revelations

Boone, Daniel

Bosnian Serbs

Boston, Massachusetts

Boucicault, Nina

Bridge on the River Kwai, The

British

British Museum

British navy

British Raj

Britton, Andrew

Broadcast News

Bryan, Rebecca (Boone)

Bryant, William Cullen

Buchenwald concentration camp

Budapest

Budweiser Clydesdales

Bug

Burma

Cabaret

Cairo, Egypt

California

Calvinist

Campbell, Joseph

Canby, Vincent

Cane

Cape Canaveral

Cape Cod

Capra, Frank

Caputi, Jane

Carboniferous Period

Carnegie, Dale

Carroll, Noël

Casablanca

Castle, William

Catholic Church (Roman)

Central America

Chase, Pauline

Chase-Riboud, Barbara

Chasseguet-Smirgel, Janine

China (Chinese)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Christ, Jesus

Christian, Barbara

Christianity

Christmas

Chrysler

“Cinderella,”

Citizen Kane

Clatterbaugh, Kenneth

Clemmons, Clarence

Clinton, President William Jefferson

“Close Encounters of the Authoritarian Kind,”

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Cold War

Colditz

Color Purple, The (novel)

Color Purple, The

Common Landscape of America 1580 to 1850,

Communism

Congo (Belgian)

Connecticut

Conrad, Joseph

Consumer Reports

Cooper, Gary

Cooper, James Fenimore

Cousteau, Jacques

Cox, Ida

Crash

Crater, or Vulcan’s Peak, The

Crèvecoeur, Hector St. John de

Crichton, Michael

Croats

Cronenberg, David

Crystal Palace

Cuba

Czechoslovakia (Czech)

Dances with Wolves

Dante (see Alighieri, Dante)

Darwinism

Davidtz, Embeth

Davis, David Brion

Day for Night [Nuit americaine, La]

“Days of Our Lives,”

D-Day Invasion

Dean, James

Dearborn Independent

Declaration of Independence

Deer Hunter, The

Deerslayer

Defoe, Daniel

DeMille, Cecil B.

Denver, John

Detroit (Michigan)

Devil’s Tower

Dick Tracy

“Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, The,”

Disney

Disneyland

DNA

Dracula, Count

Dreamworks SKG

Dreyfuss, Richard

Duel

Duncan, King

Dunne, Irene

Dürer, Albrecht

Duvall, Robert

East of Eden

Eberwein, Robert T.

Eden

Edwards, Blake

Edwards, Jonathan

Egypt

Eisenstein, Sergei

Eliade, Mircea

Elliott, Denholm

Elsaesser, Thomas

Empire of the Sun (novel)

Empire of the Sun

Enchafed Flood, The

Enemies, A Love Story

English

Epstein, Jason

Erice, Victor

E. T.:, The Extra-Terrestrial

Eugenics

Europe (European)

Fagin

Fairchild, B. H.

Falwell, Reverend Jerry

Farber, Stephen

Farrakkan, Louis

Faulkner, William

Faust

Fellini, Federico

Fink, Barton

First World War (see World War I)

Fleming, Victor

Flint (Michigan)

Fly, The

Fogu, Claudio

Fonda, Henry

Ford, Harrison

Ford, Henry

Ford, John

Fordham, Frieda

Fosse, Bob

Foster, Jodie

France (French)

Frankenstein

Franklin, John Hope

Frazier, E. Franklin

Freeman, Morgan

Freeman, Paul

French Revolution

Freud, Anna

Freud, Sigmund (Freudian)

Friedlander, Saul

Frye, Northrop

Fuehrer, Der

Fugitive Slave Act

Gabbard, Krin

Gable, Clark

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Gallipoli

Gandhi

Gandhi, Mahatma

Gans, Herbert

Garber, Marjorie

Garden of Eden

Garrison, William Lloyd

Gates, Henry Louis Jr.

Geisler, Michael

Genesis

Germany (Germans)

Gilded Age

GM (General Motors)

Gobi Desert

Godel, Alfred

Godzilla

Goebbels, Joseph Paul

Goering, Hermann

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gone with the Wind

Gonzalo

Goodman, John

Goonies, The

Gordon, Andrew

Great Depression

Great Escape, The

Great Exhibition of 1851

Great White Father, The

Greenacre, Phyllis

Griffin, Susan

Griffith. W.

Grimm’s Tales

Guardian

Guy Named Joe, A

Habits of the Heart

Hall, G. Stanley

Hallelujah

Halloween

Hamlet

Hanks, Tom

Hansen, Miriam

“Hard Driving Papa,”

Harlem

Harrison, Irving

Hart, Lorenz

Harvard University

Hawkins, Waterhouse

Hawks, Howard

Hawthorne, Nigel

“Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya,”

Hebard, Andrew

Hebrews

Heimat

Heisenberg, Werner

Hill, Anita

Hillman, James

Hinduism

Hitchcock, Alfred

Hitler, Adolf

Hoberman, J.

Hoffman, Dustin

Hollingshed

Hollywood ,

239

Holocaust

Holocaust

Home Alone

Hood, Robin

Hook

Hooks, Benjamin

Hopkins, Anthony

Horne, Ben

Hounsou, Djimon

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The

Hungary

Hungjiao

Hunter, Holly

Hurston, Zora Neale

Huyssen, Andreas

“Idea of a Patriot King, The,”

I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional

“Imitations in Children’s Literature: The Children’s Text in the World of Mechanical Reproduction,”

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones trilogy

Intolerance

Iowa

Ishmael

Islam (Moslem)

Jackson, Jesse

Jackson, Michael

James, Henry

Jameson, Fredric

Japan (Japanese)

Jaws (novel)

Jaws

Jefferson, Thomas

Jews (Jewish)

Jim Crow

Johnson, Van

Jones, Indiana

Jones, J. Howard

Jones, Quincy

Joplin, Scott

Jung. G.

Jungenstil houses

Jurassic Park (novel)

Jurassic Park

Kael, Pauline

Kai Shek, Chiang

Kaminer, Wendy

Kaufmann, Stanley

Keats, John

Kellner, Douglas

Keneally, Thomas

Kensington Gardens

Kenton, Stan

Keynesian economics

King Kong

King, Martin Luther

Koch, Gertrud

Kodály, Zoltán

Knight, Death and the Devil

Kracauer, Siegfried

Kröger, Tonio

Kubrick, Stanley

Kurtz

Kuspit, Donald

Lacan,Jacques

Langer, Lawrence

Lanzmann, Claude

Latin

Lean, David

Leatherstocking tales

Legree, Simon

Lehman, Peter

Leigh, Vivian

Letters from an American Farmer

Lewin, Bertram D.

Lifton, Robert Jay

Lilies of the Fields

Lincoln, Abraham

Liszt Academy

Little Eva

Little Gidding

London (England)

Long Island

Longest Day, The

Lord of the Flies

Lorre, Peter

Los Angeles

Los Angeles riots

Los Angeles Times

Losey, Joseph

Lot’s wife

Lucas, George

Luhr, William

Lunghua

Lyotard, Jean-Francois

Macbeth

Madison, James

Mafia

Making of Jurassic Park, The

Malkovich, John

Manchurian Candidate, The

Manhattan

Manichaeanism

Mann, Thomas

Marlow

Marshall, Army Chief of Staff General George C.

Martians

Marx, Leo

Marxism

Maslin, Janet

Massachusetts

Mature, Victor

Maus

Maya

McConaughey, Matthew

McDonalds

McFly, Marty

Mein Kampf

Meinig. W.

Melancholia

Melville, Herman

Mende

Mesoamerica

Metz, Christian

Mexico (Mexican)

Mildred Pierce

Miller, Glenn

Miller, Kelly Dr.

“Mission, The,”

M. Klein

Moby Dick

Monde, La

Mongolia

Monk, Egon

Monroe, Marilyn

Montana

Moore, Michael

Morrison, Toni

Moses

Moslem (see Islam)

Mt. Sinai

Mulvey, Laura

Munich (Germany)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban

Mutiny on the Amistad

1941

1939 World’s Fair

Nagasaki

Nantao

Nature

Nazi

Nemo, Captain

Nepal

New Age

New Deal

New England

New Jersey

New Republic

New York

New York

New York Amsterdam News

New York Times, The

Newsweek

Nicaragua

Night and Fog

Nineteenth Annual International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association

“Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll like Mine,”

Normandy

Northam, Jeremy

Nuremburg race laws

“O, Mary Don’t You Weep,”

O’Brien, Willis

“Ode to a Nightingale,”

Oedipal conflict

Oedipus

O’Hara, Maureen

Ohio

Oliver Twist

Omaha Beach

Omnimax theater

One Million Years B. C.

Orca

Orwell, George

Osborn, Henry Fairfield

Osborn, Michael

Oscar (see Academy Award)

Osherson, Samuel

Osterman, Paul

Oxford University Press

Owen, Richard

Owens, William

Pall, Ellen

Pandora’s Box

Parker, Charlie

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)

Pearl Harbor

Peggy Sue Got Married

Pentatuch

Pequod

Peter Pan

Peter Pan (play)

Peter Pan (novel)

Petrel, H. M. S.

Plato

Platoon

Plszow labor camp

Poland (Polish)

Political Unconscious, The

“Politics and Parousia in Close Encounters of the Third Kind,”

Poltergeist

Postlethwaite, Pete

Princeton University

Psycho

Puritan

Quiet Man, The

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Rainey, Ma

Rambo films

Rank, Otto

Reagan administration

Reagan, Ronald (Reaganism)

Redford, Robert

Reitz, Edgar

Resnais, Alain

Revolution of 1848

Rhys-Davies, John

Ribera, José

Rich, Frank

Richardson, Miranda

Richardson, Samuel

“Ride of the Valkyries, The,”

Robin Hood

Robinson Crusoe

Rochefoucauld, La

Roger & Me

Roger Rabbit

Rogers, J. A.

Rogers, Richard

Roman Coloseum

Rome (imperial)

Romero, George

Rose, Jacqueline

Rosemary’s Baby

Rosenbaum, Jonathan

Rosetta Stone

Rowan, John

Russia

Ryan, Michael

Sade, Marquis de

Santner, Eric

Saving Private Ryan

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von

Schindler, Oskar

Schindler’s List, (novel)

Schindler’s List

Schultz, Elizabeth

Science

Seventh Cavalry

Shakespeare, William

Shanghai

“Shave ’Em Dry,”

Shoah

Siberian labor camp

Sierra Club

Silverman, Kaja

Sinatra, Frank

Sinclair Oil

Skarsgård, Stellan

Skywalker, Anakin

Skywalker, Luke

Sloterdijk, Peter

Slotkin, Richard

Smith, Bessie

Smith, Cyril

Smith, Roger

Smith, Willie “The Lion,”

Sobchack, Vivian

Sodom

Sonoran Desert

South America

“South Central,”

Soviet

Soviet (evil empire)

Spain (Spanish)

Spanish Catholicism

Spiegelman, Art

Spielberg, Arnold (father)

Spielberg, Leah Posner (mother)

Spirit of the Beehive, The [El Espiritu de la Colmena]

Spivey, Victoria

Springsteen, Bruce

SS

Stalin, Joseph

Stalinist atrocities

Star Trek

Star Wars trilogy

Starbuck

Starks, Joe

State Opera House in Budapest

Steinbrenner, George

Stevens, Wallace

Stewart, James

Stilgoe, John R.

Sting

Stoker, Bram

Stone, Oliver

Stoppard, Tom

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Studlar, Gaylan

Sula

“Sunday Morning,”

“Suo Gan,”

Superman

Susina, Jan

Sydenham

S/Z

2001: A Space Odyssey

Tahiti

Tai Pan

Taiwan

Tempest, The

Ten Commandments

Ten Commandments, The

Tenko

Terminator

Terra

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Theory of Film

Thessalonians

Thomas, Clarence

Thoreau, Henry David

“Three New Theropoda, Protocerotops Zone, Central Mongolia,”

Tinkerbell

Toomer, Jean

Topsy

Torry, Robert

Tower of Babel

Tracy, Spencer

Trask, Aaron

Trask, Cal

“Trauma, Memory,”

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The

Truffaut, François

Trumbo, Dalton

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twin Peaks

UFOs

UN (United Nations)

Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

United States

U.S.S. Indianapolis

U.S. Supreme Court

Vader, Darth

Van Buren, President Martin

Verne, Jules

Victor, Victoria

Videodrome

Vidor, King

Vietnam War

Waelder, Robert

Wales (Welsh)

Walker, Alice

Washington.C.

Washington, George

Washington, Grover

Wayne, John

Weimar years

Weir, Peter

Welsh

West Indies

White House

“Who Killed the Middle Class?,”

Wilentz, Sean

Will, George F.

Williams, John

Williams, Robin,

Williams, Tony

Wood, Robin

World War I (First World War)

World War II (Second World War)

Yahweh

Yale divinity students

Yangtse

Yiddish theater

Yugoslavia

Zionist conspiracy