Part 1: American Popular Culture -- The Legacy of the 30's -- Woofed With Dreams -- Clifford Odets: Poet of the Jewish Middle Class -- The "Idealism" of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- Paul, the Horror Comics, and Dr. Wertham -- E.B. White and the New Yorker -- An Old Man Gone -- Part 2: American Movies -- The Gangster as Tragic Hero -- Movie Chronicle: The Westerner -- The Anatomy of Falsehood -- Father and Son--and the FBI -- The Movie Camera and the American -- The Liberal Conscience in The Crucible -- Part 3: Charles Chaplin -- Monsieur Verdoux -- A Feeling of Sad Dignity -- Part 4: The Art Film -- The Flight From Europe -- Paisan -- Day of Wrath: The Enclosed Image -- Re-Viewing The Russian Movies