Contents -- 1. Introduction: Is There Class in This Text? -- 2. Beyond the Screen: History, Class, and the Movies -- 3. The Melos in Marxist Theory -- 4. Strike and the Question of Class -- 5. The Gun in the Briefcase -- or, The Inscription of Class in Film Noir -- 6. "No Sin in Lookin' Prosperous": Gender, Race, and the Class Formations of Middlebrow Taste in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life -- 7. Compromised Liberation: The Politics of Class in Chinese Cinema of the Early 1950s -- 8. Out of the Mine and into the Canyon: Working-Class Feminism, Yesterday and Today -- 9. For a Working-Class Television: The Miners' Campaign Tape Project -- 10. Poltergeists, Gender, and Class in the Age of Reagan and Bush -- 11. Class in Action -- 12. The Hollywood Waitress: A Hard-Boiled Egg and the Salt of the Earth -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.