Introduction: The American Century-and now what?, Kingsley Bolton and Jan
Olsson:
Part I. Cinema and Americanization
1. Italian Marionettes Meet Cinematic Modernity, an Olsson
2. Red-Blooded America in the Early Feature Film, Joel Frykholm
3. Song of the Sonic Body: Noise, the Audience, and Early American Moving
Picture Culture, Meredith Ward
4. Constructing the American Vernacular: The Media and Language Change,
Kingsley Bolton,
Part II. Americans at the Margins
5. You Only Love Once: Repetitions of Crime as Desire in the Films of
Sylvia Sidney, 1930-1937, Esther Sonnet
6. Punks! Topicality and the 1950s Gangster Bio-Pic Cycle, Peter Stanfield
7. Civil Rights on the Screen, Michael Renov
Part III. American Dreams/American
Nightmares
8. Sun Yu and the Early Americanization of Chinese Cinema, Corrado Neri
9. Amérique, A-mei-li-ga and métissage: Looking for America in Martinique,
Gold Mountain, and the Cuban-Chinese Restaurant, Gregory Lee
10. Importing Evil: The American Gangster, Swedish Cinema, and
Anti-American Propaganda, Ann-Kristin Wallengren
Part IV America Goes Digital
11. Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Visualizing and mapping the U.S. Digital TV
Transition, Lisa Parks
12. Archival Transitions and Digital Propositions, Pelle Snickars
13. Are Americans Human?, Evelyn Ch'ien
Afterword: Rethinking American Studies, William Uricchio
