Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 America Before the Civil War -- 2 The Civil War, 1861-1865 -- 3 The Way West and America's Two Solitudes, 1840-1900 -- 4 The Country versus the City: The Agrarian and Industrial -- Conflict, 1870-1940 -- 5 Immigration and the Challenge to Anglo-Conformity, 1885- -- 1961 -- 6 World War One and Goodbye to All That, 1916-1933 -- 7 The Great Depression, Documentary Expression, and -- Representing the Previously Unrepresented, 1929-1967 -- 8 World War Two and the Individual versus the Collective, -- 1933-1950s -- 9 Postwar Alienation and Despair, 1946-1962 -- 10 Civil Rights and the Battle for the Inclusion into the American -- Dream, 1949-Present -- 11 The Atomic Bomb, Cold War Paranoia, and the Expanding -- National Security State, 1946-Present -- 12 Viet Nam and the Things We Carry, 1954-Present -- 13 The Counterculture Rebellion and the Quest for -- Authenticity, 1961-Present -- 14 Watergate, Political Cynicism, and Hope, 1972-Present -- Appendix 1: Multicultural Films -- Appendix 2: Woman-centered Films -- General Index -- Title Index.