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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Happy Days
Introduction • It’s Only a Movie
I • Consensus and its Discontents
Chapter 1. Who’s in Charge Here?
We the Jury: 12 Angry Men
Docs and Robbers: Panic in the Streets
The Local Hero: My Darling Clementine
The Outsider: High Noon
Chapter 2. The Organization Man Goes to War
Must We Conform?
Babies and Bombers: Strategic Air Command
The Men in the Gray Flannel Uniforms: Twelve O’Clock High and Flying Leathernecks
A Different Bugler: From Here to Eternity
At War with the Army: The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell
Prisoners of War: Attack!
II • Us and Them
Chapter 3. Pods and Blobs
The Other Americans
The Russians Are Coming, Aren’t They? Them! and The Thing
The Mind Managers: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Friends in High Places: The Day the Earth Stood Still and It Came from Outer Space
Chapter 4. The Enemy Within
Friendly Persuasion
Public Enemies: On the Waterfront, Underworld USA, The Big Heat, and Force of Evil
Wild in the Streets: Rebel Without a Cause, Blackboard Jungle, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and The Space Children
Cochise, Si! Geronimo, No! Broken Arrow, The Searchers, and Apache
III • Male and Female
Chapter 5. All in the Family
Coming Home
Bringing Up Father: Red River
Mother Knows Best: Giant
The Taming of the Shrew: Mildred Pierce
I Remember Poppa: Executive Suite
The Right Man for the Job: The Fountainhead
The Man in the Red Flannel Shirt: All That Heaven Allows
Conclusion • Coming Apart
Notes
Photo Credits
Index
Also by Peter Biskind
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