Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Figures

pp ix-x

Acknowledgments

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Coming of Age

pp 15-16

1 - Leading Up to Midnight Cowboy: A Kind of Loving, Billy Liar and Darling

pp 17-34

2 - Schlesinger's Bildungsfilm: Midnight Cowboy and the Problem of Youth

pp 35-50

3 - Human Emergence in a Commercial Age: Madame Sousatzka

pp 51-60

Part II - Identity and Nation

pp 61-62

4 - “An Uncomfortable Truth”: The Day of the Locust

pp 63-78

5 - Box Office Failure: Honky Tonk Freeway and the Risks of Embarrassing the United States

pp 79-86

6 - An Eye for an I: Identity and Nation in the Films of the Reagan-Thatcher Years (Yanks, An Englishman Abroad, The Falcon and the Snowman, A Question of Attribution)

pp 87-114

Part III - The Uses of the Past

pp 115-116

7 - History Hollywood-Style: Far from the Madding Crowd

pp 117-122

8 - The Resonance of Art: Sunday Bloody Sunday

pp 123-138

Epilogue: Refusal to Mourn: Cold Comfort Farm

pp 139-144

Notes

pp 145-156

Works Cited

pp 157-162

Index

pp 163-170