Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Gangsterism and Capitalism: The Mob Movie and After
The supplement of Coppola: Primitive accumulation and the Godfather trilogy
Hobbes after Marx, Scorsese after Coppola: On Goodfellas
Tony Soprano and the end(s) of the mob movie
Section 2: Noir and its Disconnects
Marxism, cinema, and some dialectics of film noir and science fiction
Noir, neo-noir, and the end of work: From Double Indemnity to Body Heat
Section 3: Empire and Gender in the John Wayne Western
Versions of the American imperium in three westerns by John Ford
Post-heterosexuality: John Wayne and the construction of American masculinity
Notes
Index