JOHN BELTON is a professor of English at Rutgers University and author of Widescreen Cinema and American Cinema/American Culture.

• IntroductionMass Culture, the Individual, and the MassApocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of ReformThe Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New DealThe Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass MoralityThe Carole Lombard in Macy's WindowThe Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the CinemaThe Production CodeThe Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film NoirNotes on Film NoirWoman's Place: The Absent Family of Film NoirMass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite CinemaPostmodernism and Consumer SocietyPapering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan EraAgainst the GrainNew U.S. Black CinemaThe Oppositional Gaze: Black Female SpectatorsSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex

JOHN BELTON is a professor of English at Rutgers University and author of Widescreen Cinema and American Cinema/American Culture.

• IntroductionMass Culture, the Individual, and the MassApocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of ReformThe Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New DealThe Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass MoralityThe Carole Lombard in Macy's WindowThe Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the CinemaThe Production CodeThe Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film NoirNotes on Film NoirWoman's Place: The Absent Family of Film NoirMass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite CinemaPostmodernism and Consumer SocietyPapering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan EraAgainst the GrainNew U.S. Black CinemaThe Oppositional Gaze: Black Female SpectatorsSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex

JOHN BELTON is a professor of English at Rutgers University and author of Widescreen Cinema and American Cinema/American Culture.

• IntroductionMass Culture, the Individual, and the MassApocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of ReformThe Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New DealThe Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass MoralityThe Carole Lombard in Macy's WindowThe Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the CinemaThe Production CodeThe Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film NoirNotes on Film NoirWoman's Place: The Absent Family of Film NoirMass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite CinemaPostmodernism and Consumer SocietyPapering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan EraAgainst the GrainNew U.S. Black CinemaThe Oppositional Gaze: Black Female SpectatorsSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex