God, man, and Hollywood : politically incorrect cinema from "The birth of a nation" to "The Passion of the Christ"
(Book)

Foreword / R. Barton Palmer

Prologue : the view from Main Street

Ride to the rescue : D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation (1915)

The bourgeois sentimentality of Gone with the wind : David O. Selznick's Gone with the wind (1939)

What a beautiful day! : Walt Disney's Song of the South (1946)

The keeper of our conscience : Clarence Brown's Intruder in the dust (1949)

Racing for glory : Fred Niblo's Ben-Hur (1926) and William Wyler's Ben-Hur (1959)

Cactus Rose : John Ford's The man who shot Liberty Valance (1962)

The universal soldier : Franklin Schaffner's Patton (1970)

Fixing sin : Stanley Kubrick's A clockwork orange (1971)

The moral vision of Straw dogs : Sam Peckinpah's Straw dogs (1971)

Rites in conflict : Michael Cimino's The deer hunter (1978)

That's what friends are for : Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

No greater love : Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands (1993)

Copperhead cinema : Ang Lee's Ride with the devil (1999) and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002)

The cause of us all : Ronald F. Maxwell's Gettysburg (1993) and Gods and generals (2003)

Blood, sweat, and grace : Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ (2004)

One hundred politically incorrect films: About Schmidt, Advise and consent, All quiet on the western front, All the king's men, Babette's feast, Bananas, The barbarian invastions, Barbershop, Barcelona, Becket, Being there, The best years of our lives, Blast from the past, Blazing saddles, Borat, Braveheart, Brazil, Chariots of fire, The chronicles of Narnia: the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, Citizen Ruth, Colonel Effingham's raid, Crash, Dawn of the dead, The decalogue, one-ten, The decline of the American Empire, Destination moon, Dirty Harry, Edmond, The edge of the world, A face in the crowd, The Fanny trilogy, The great McGinty, Hardcore, Hoffa, Hoosiers, I love you, Alice B. Toklas!, Jezebel, Judge Priest, Kate and Leopold, Khartoum, King of the hill, The leopard, The life and death of Colonel Blimp, The little colonel, Looking for comedy in the Muslim world, Lord of the flies, A man for all seasons, Metropolitan, A mighty wind, The mouse that roared, The music man, Nashville, The nativity story, Oleanna, On the waterfront, The outlaw Josey Wales, The passion of Joan of Arc, Pharaoh's Army, Places in the heart, The player, Primary colors, The producers, The queen, Rambling Rose, Red Dawn, Red river, The right stuff, Separate but equal, Shane, Sullivan's travels, The taming of the shrew, Tender mercies, The terminal, Thank you for smoking, Three colors trilogy, The trip to bountiful, The virgin spring, Vitva Zapata, Wag the dog, Walking tall, We the living, We were soldiers, The wild river, Witness, The year of living dangerously, Zulu.