Part I: History

i. Why Movies Matter

ii. Movies, Politics, and the Working Class

iii. Looking at Labor-Capital Films

Conservative Films

Radical Films

Liberal Films

Populist Films

Anti-Authoritarian Films

iv. When Workers and Radicals Made Movies

v. Class Battles On Screen: Decoding Cinematic Ideology

Conservative Attack

Liberal Ambivalence

Worker Counterattacks

Part II: Self Study - An Exercise in Reading Ideology

Labor's Reward (1925): A Case Study

Self-Study Exercise

Film Clips

Stills