Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- The Films of Sidney Lumet -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Cinema of Conscience -- Q&A: Heart of Darkness -- Power: Packaging the System -- 2. The Loner and the Struggle for Moral Capability -- Equus: Martin Dysart and the Death of the Gods -- The Deadly Affair: Varieties of Betrayal -- The Fugitive Kind: Orpheus Ascending -- A View from the Bridge: The Consequences of Denial -- Daniel: The Understanding of the Past -- 3. Woman and the Progress of Self-Understanding -- The Group: Kay's Fall and the Death of Dreams -- That Kind of Woman: Levels of Insecurity -- Lovin'Molly: Psychological Aspects of the Archetypal Female -- 4. Lumet at Zenith: In the American Film Pantheon -- 12 Angry Men: Toward an Imaginative Use of Reason -- Long Day's Journey into Night: The Flight from Self-Knowledge -- Fail Safe: The Final Game -- The Pawnbroker: The Insistence of Memor -- 5. Comic Misconnections and the Universality of Loss -- The Sea Gull: The Comedy of Compassion -- Bye, Bye Braverman: Death and Sympathy -- 6. Major Films from Nonliterary Sources -- The Hill: Ambiguities of Order -- The Offence: The Repression of Disorder -- Serpico: "Who Can Trust a Cop Who Don't Take Money?" -- Dog Day Afternoon: The Contemporary Urban Absurd -- Network: Crime at the Top -- Prince of the City: Film as Literature -- 7. A Major American Director -- Afterword -- The Appointment: Film Form and the Objectification of Woman -- Running on Empty: Politics and Family -- Murder on the Orient Express: Nostalgia and Enchantment -- Just Tell Me What You Want Satire and Romance -- The Verdict: "Long Road That Has No Turning" -- A Stranger Among Us: Feminism and Spirituality -- Guilty as Sin: Prince of Darkness -- Night Falls on Manhattan: The Coming of Wisdom.

Critical Care: Learning to Love the Dying -- Gloria: If You Love Me -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.