Introduction / Philip Davies and Brian Neve -- The mind of the mob / P.H. Melling -- The political economy of Hollywood / Richard Maltby -- The nation in crisis / Ralph Willett -- Made for each other / Richard Maltby -- The 1950s, the case of Elia Kazan and On the waterfront / Brian Neve -- A growing independence / Philip Davies -- The American western and American society / Christopher Frayling -- The working class goes to Hollywood / Leonard Quart and Albert Auster -- Blacks in American film / Mary Ellison -- Keystone to Kojak / Robert Reiner -- Blood on the Nash Ambassador / Eric Mottram.