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