Contents

Introduction – Charles Musser and Robert Sklar

Oh Althusser!: Historiography and the Rise of Cinema Studies – Robert Sklar

Work, Ideology, and Chaplin’s Tramp – Charles Musser

Cinema and Class Conflict: Labor, Capital, the State, and American Silent Film – Steven J. Ross

Cinema and Everyday Life: Soviet Worker Clubs of the 1920s – Vance Kepley

Left Political Filmmaking in the West: The Interwar Years – Jonathan Buchsbaum

6. Ideology Elsewhere: The Contradictions of Italian Fascist Cinema – Vito Zagarrio

The Female Spy: Gender and Nationality in World War II British Film – Antonia Lant

The Japanese Tragedy: Film Censorship and the American Occupation – Kyoko Hirano

Risorgimento History and Screen Spectacle: Visconti’s Senso – Leger Grindon

Master Narrative/Counter Readings: The Politics of Israeli Cinema – Ella Shohat

Transformations of National Allegory: Brazilian Cinema from Dictatorship to Redemocratization – Robert Stam and Ismael Xavier

An "Other" History: The New Latin American Cinema – Ana M. Lopez