Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: The Unusual Suspects; The Shape of Things to Come; Values, Old and New; The Color of Money; Blame It on the Movies?; The Outer Limits; The Outer Limits, II; The Big Picture; Sixties-somethings; 2 Teaching; Gradgrind and Sons; Live Teachers Society; Creativity and Order; 3 Cultural Literacy; The Death of the Past; Past vs Present; The Culture of Solipsism; The Trap of Relevance; Strangeness and Beauty; Back to the Future; 4 Work; The House of the Rising Sun; Hot Jobs; Discouraged Workers; At the Cutting Edge., Women's WorkHow to Succeed at Satire by Really Trying; A Model Modern Businessman; Futures Markets; 5 Sports; The Superboom; Rocky and Beyond; Grace under Pressure; The Year of Playing Baseball Dangerously; Has-Beens; Sports, Films, Race; Metaphor, Myth, Anti*Myth; 6 Home; Neo-Traditionalism; Home Movies; ""Git Me a Toddler""; The Death of Romance; Male Bonding; Sixties-something, II; Two Hip Homes; Woody Allen Relaxes; Future Home Movies; 7 Environment; Benign Neglect, I; Splendid Gizmos; The Very Big Apple; Places in the Heart; The Shape of Things to Come, II; 8 Patriotism; Going in Circles., Romance with RamboLeft, Right, Left; Platoon: the Real Symbolism; La Guerre Est Finie?; 9 Heroines; They Don't Make 'em Like They Used to; New Heroines: Film and TV; Smart Women, Limited Choices; The Good, the Strong, and the Feminine; 10 Justice; Where's a Good Cop When You Really Need One?; Justice and Sex; Justice and Race; Cops and Race; Did Spike Lee Do the Right Thing?; And Justice for All?; 11 Irony; Don't Worry, Be Happy; The Put-down as Fine Art; Anti-""Sixties-Something""; Comedy vs Irony?; Sympathy for the Devil; Hope vs Irony; 12 Religion; They Don't Make 'em Like They Used to, II., and Sweet ReasonCalifornia Dreaming; Another Home Movie?; The Fate of Faith on Film; Notes; Index.
