Tabla de Contenidos: “…Entertainment and utopia / Richard Dyer -- The self-reflective musical and the myth of entertainment / Jane Feuer -- The American film musical as dual-focus narrative / Rick Altman -- Busby Berkeley and the backstage musical / Martin Rubin -- Sexual economics, Gold diggers of 1933 / Patricia Mellencamp -- Pre-text and text in Gentlemen prefer blondes / Lucie Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca -- "Feminizing" the song-and-dance man, Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical / Steven Cohan -- Judy Garland and camp / Richard Dyer -- "Working like a homosexual", camp visual codes and the labor of gay subjects in the MGM Freed Unit / Matthew Tinkcom -- Feminist camp in Gold diggers of 1933 / Pamela Robertson -- "The lady in the tutti-frutti hat", Carmen Miranda, a spectacle of ethnicity / Shari Roberts -- Dancin' in the rain / Carol J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Motion pictures as business boosters -- The talkies arrive, commercially speaking -- War on free shows, stars sell cars, business finds its voice -- Everything follows the film -- Television ads condition filmgoers to accept commercials -- Ad trailers make a big push -- Ad trailers in the modern era -- Hollywood the ad-product placement in the modern era…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction Chapter One: Displaced Vision: The Politics of Realism in Kracauer and Kluge, Tara Forrest Chapter Two: The Rhetoric of Madness in Realist Film Theory, Temenuga Trifonova Chapter Three: Phenomenology, Theology, and 'Physical Reality': The Film Theory Realism of Siegfried Kracauer, Tyson Wils Chapter Four: 'Montage, My Fine Care': Realism, Surrealism and Postmodernism after Bazin, Ramona Fotiade Chapter Five: Multiple Indexicality and Multiple Realism in André Bazin, Seung-hoon Jeong Chapter Six: André Bazin, or the Ambiguity of Reality, Pierre Sorlin Chapter Seven: Realism is to Think Historically: Overlapping Elements in Lukácsian and Brechtian Theories of Realism, Angelos Koutsourakis Chapter Eight: The Moving-Image Redemption of Orality and Lukács' early Writing on the Cinema, Apple Xu Yaping Chapter Nine: The 'Naturalist' Treatment of Film in The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Georg Lukács, 1963), and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1962, Caspar Wrede, 1970), Ian Aitken Chapter Ten: The Documentary Version of Film History, Henry K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Scant sign of thaw : fear and anxiety in the representation of foreigners in the Soviet films of the Khrushchev years / Julian Graffy -- 'The Italians are coming!' …”
Sumario

“…Bette Davis, her films and career…”