Introduction: The American Century—and now what?, Kingsley Bolton and Jan Olsson: Part I. Cinema and Americanization 1. Italian Marionettes Meet Cinematic Modernity, an Olsson 2. Red-Blooded America in the Early Feature Film, Joel Frykholm 3. Song of the Sonic Body: Noise, the Audience, and Early American Moving Picture Culture, Meredith Ward 4. Constructing the American Vernacular: The Media and Language Change, Kingsley Bolton, Part II. Americans at the Margins 5. You Only Love Once: Repetitions of Crime as Desire in the Films of Sylvia Sidney, 1930–1937, Esther Sonnet 6. Punks! Topicality and the 1950s Gangster Bio-Pic Cycle, Peter Stanfield 7. Civil Rights on the Screen, Michael Renov Part III. American Dreams/American Nightmares 8. Sun Yu and the Early Americanization of Chinese Cinema, Corrado Neri 9. Amérique, A-mei-li-ga and métissage: Looking for America in Martinique, Gold Mountain, and the Cuban-Chinese Restaurant, Gregory Lee 10. Importing Evil: The American Gangster, Swedish Cinema, and Anti-American Propaganda, Ann-Kristin Wallengren Part IV America Goes Digital 11. Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Visualizing and mapping the U.S. Digital TV Transition, Lisa Parks 12. Archival Transitions and Digital Propositions, Pelle Snickars 13. Are Americans Human?, Evelyn Ch'ien Afterword: Rethinking American Studies, William Uricchio