Introduction : the American political film
1. Meet the candidate : the political campaign film
2. Inside politics : the process of government in American political film
3. Communism, anticommunism, and the blacklist : McCarthyism and American film
4. Science fiction and nuclear fear : the Cold war in American film
5. As seen on television : politics and the media in American film
6. Working on the chain gang : labor and class in American film
7. Apocalypse then : the Vietnam war in American film
8. United States vs. the World : American film and warfare after the Cold war
Conclusion : Political film in the twenty-first century