The Civil War: the first year told by those who lived it

Introduction / Sanford Schwartz --
Movies, the Desperate Art --
from I Lost it at the Movies. The Glamour of Delinquency 
 The Golden Coach 
 Shoeshine 
 Breathless, and the Daisy Miller Doll 
 West Side Story 
 Lolita 
 Jules and Jim 
 Billy Budd 
 Yojimbo 
 Devi 
 Hud, Deep in the Divided Heart of Hollywood --
from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Laurence Olivier as Othello 
 Marlon Brando: An American Hero 
 Movie Brutalists 
 Tourist in the City of Youth [Blow-up] 
 Movies on Television 
 Orson Welles: There Ain\'t No Way [Falstaff / Chimes at Midnight] 
 Bonnie and Clyde --
from Going Steady. Movies as Opera [China Is Near] 
 A Minority Movie [La Chinoise] 
 Faces 
 A Sign of Life [Shame] 
 Trash, Art, and the Movies 
 Saintliness [Simon of the Desert] --
from Deeper into Movies. The Bottom of the Pit [Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid] 
 High School 
 Fellini\'s \"Mondo Trasho\" [Fellini Satyricon] 
 Notes on Heart and Mind 
 The Poetry of Images [The Conformist] 
 Pipe Dream [McCabe & Mrs. Miller] 
 Helen of Troy, Sexual Warrior [The Trojan Women] 
 Louis Malle\'s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog [Murmur of the Heart] 
 Urban Gothic [The French Connection] 
 The Fall and Rise of Vittorio De Sica [The Garden of the Finzi-Continis] 
 Stanley Strangelove [A Clockwork Orange] 
 Alchemy [The Godfather] 
 Collaboration and Resistance [The Sorrow and the Pity] --
from Reeling. Tango [Last Tango in Paris] 
 Pop Versus Jazz [Lady Sings the Blues] 
 The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book 
 Days and Nights in the Forest 
 A Rip-Off with Genius [Marilyn] 
 After Innocence [The Last American Hero] 
 Everyday Inferno [Mean Streets] 
 Movieland --
The Bums\' Paradise [The Long Goodbye] 
 Moments of Truth [The Iceman Cometh] 
 Politics and Thrills 
 Survivor [Sleeper] 
 Killing Time [Magnum Force] 
 Cicely Tyson Goes to the Fountain [The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman] 
 The Used Madonna [The Mother and the Whore] 
 When the Saints Come Marching In [Lenny] 
 Fathers and Sons [The Godfather, Part II] 
 Beverly Hills as a Big Bed [Shampoo] 
 Coming: Nashville --
from When the Lights Go Down. The Man from Dream City [Cary Grant] 
 All for Love [The Story of Adèle H.] 
 Walking into Your Childhood [The Magic Flute] 
 Notes on the Nihilist Poetry of Sam Peckinpah [The Killer Elite] 
 The Artist as a Young Comedian [Next Stop, Greenwich Village] 
 Underground Man [Taxi Driver] 
 Sparkle 
 Notes on Evolving Heroes, Morals, Audiences 
 Hot Air [Network] 
 Marguerite Duras [The Truck] 
 A Woman for All Seasons? [Julia] 
 Shivers [The Fury] 
 Fear of Movies 
 Bertrand Blier 
 The God-Bless-America Symphony [The Deer Hunter] 
 Pods [Invasion of the Body Snatchers] --
from Taking It All In. Why Are Movies So Bad? or, The Numbers 
 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 
 The Man Who Made Howard Hughes Sing [Melvin and Howard] 
 Used Cars 
 Religious Pulp, or The Incredible Hulk [Raging Bull] 
 Atlantic City 
 Hey, Torquemada [History of the World, Part I] 
 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer [Blow Out] 
 Pennies from Heaven 
 Shoot the Moon 
 Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip 
 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 
 Up the River [Fitzcarraldo, Burden of Dreams] 
 Tootsie 
 Memory [The Night of the Shooting Stars] --
from State of the Art. A Masterpiece [The Leopard] 
 The Perfectionist [Yentl] 
 Golden Kimonos [The Makioka Sisters] --
from Hooked. Out There and In Here [Blue Velvet] 
 Irish Voices [The Dead] 
 The Lady from the Sea [High Tide] --
from Movie Love. Unreal [Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown] 
 A Wounded Apparition [Casualties of War] 
 Satyr [My Left Foot] 
 The Grifters.