Table of Contents
Introduction: taking Hollywood seriously --Modernism, intellectual immigrants, and the rebirth of Hollywood --Salons, bookstores, and anti-Nazism: the remaking of the Hollywood community --The making of an anti-Fascist community --Hollywood unraveled: community and style, 1939-1941 --The "only respectable clothes": progressive Hollywood and democratic realism during World War II --Audiences, "people," and the avant-garde: the collapse of the Hollywood community --"Weary standard-bearers of progrss": Hollywood progressive cinema and the crisis of the Hollywood community --Conclusion: one last Hollywood self-portrait.