Blaxploitation, 18, 109, 186–187, 191, 198–200, 277

block booking, 41

Bloodbrothers, 197, 204, 232–233, 277

Bloom, Verna, 124, 131, 279

Bloomington, Ind., 251–252

Blue Collar, 11, 18, 24, 44, 187, 199–200, 202, 233, 245, 277

blue collar, 5, 14, 17–18, 43, 146–147, 152, 187, 197, 200, 225, 231, 233

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 143, 277

Bodnar, John, 14–15, 21, 38–39, 42–46, 267

Bogdanovich, Peter, 98, 165

Bohunks, 251

Bohunks (definition), 251

Bonerz, Peter, 125, 279

Bonnie and Clyde, 11–12, 21–22, 25, 46, 50–51, 57–67, 72, 77, 100n1, 110, 133, 277

Bordwell, David, 75, 97, 100n1, 110, 194, 233, 247, 267

Bound For Glory, 115, 194, 278

bourgeois(ie), 34, 38–40, 152, 210–211

Boxcar Bertha, 115, 278

Boyle, Peter, 130, 144, 151, 279

Brakhage, Stan, 97

Brando, Marlon, 45, 279–280

Braunstein, Peter, 32, 108, 268

Breaking Away, 18, 25, 247, 251–252, 254, 256, 278

Breathless, 63, 278

Breen, Joseph, 43–44

Bridges, Jeff, 257n3

Broderick, James, 112, 277

Bronson, Charles, 208, 279

brute (working class, blue collar), 43, 45, 106, 119, 121, 227–228, 234–235, 237

buddy films, 82–83, 167–168, 207

Burstyn, Ellen, 206, 277

Butkus, Dick, 225

Cadillac (“welfare”), 105, 231

Canby, Vincent, 132, 268

capitalism, 34, 37, 65, 212–213, 236, 239n3–4

Carnal Knowledge, 143, 278

Carter, Jimmy, 197, 241–243, 245

Cassavettes, John, 97, 194

Chicago, 22, 79, 102, 123–124, 127–128, 131–132, 151, 210–211, 222, 225, 248

Chicago police, 123–124, 127, 132

Christopher, Dennis, 252, 278

Cimino, Michael, 248, 278

cinemascope, 73

cinerama, 73

civil rights, 5–6, 14, 19, 31, 49, 78, 133, 155, 181, 196–197

Civil Rights Movement, 19, 49, 78, 133, 155, 197

Clairton, PA, 247–252

class consciousness, 3, 14, 34–35, 186, 262

Cleopatra Jones, 199, 278

Coburn, James, 209, 279

collective, 23, 25, 34, 38–39, 43, 47n4, 54, 56, 165, 200, 210, 212–214, 223

Columbia Pictures, 36, 97

Columbia University, 78–79

Coming Home, 45, 194, 246, 278

commodity, 126, 132, 193