List of figures Introduction Chapter 1: Populism, race, and The Birth of a Nation (1915) Chapter 2: Revolution!: Battleship Potemkin (1925) Chapter 3: Leni Riefenstahl and "Fascinating Fascism": Triumph of the Will (1935) Chapter 4: American democracy and Frank Capra: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Chapter 5: Revolution in the 1960s: The Battle of Algiers (1966) Chapter 6: Revolutionary cinema in Latin America: Lucía (1968) Chapter 7: Politics and the apocalypse: Weekend (1967) Chapter 8: Reflections on Fascism: The Conformist (1970) Chapter 9: The Cold War, part one: science fiction and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Chapter 10: The Cold War, part two: Point of Order (1964) and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Chapter 11: Hollywood and the blacklist: Salt of the Earth (1954) Chapter 12: Paranoia and political assassination: JFK (1991) Chapter 13: Contemporary American politics: documentaries Chapter 14: Contemporary American politics: new channels Bibliography Index e fiction and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Chapter 10: The Cold War, part two: Point of Order (1964) and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Chapter 11: Hollywood and the blacklist: Salt of the Earth (1954) Chapter 12: Paranoia and political assassination: JFK (1991) Chapter 13: Contemporary American politics: documentaries Chapter 14: Contemporary American politics: new channels Bibliography Index.