Dark Utopia

Lucy FISCHER: "The Shock of the New": Electrification, Illumination, Urbanization, and the Cinema
Wheeler Winston DIXON: The Endless Embrace of Hell: Hopeless and Betrayal in Film Noir
Steven Alan CARR: Mass Murder, Modernity, and the Alienated Gaze
Walter METZ: Modernity in Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock

Capital Advances

Gwendolyn Audrey FOSTER: Performing Modernity and Gender in the 1930s
Rebecca BELL-METEREAU: The Capital Shape of Science Fiction Heroes to Come
Christopher SHARRETT: False Criticism: Cinema, Bourgeois Society, and the Conservative Complaint

Strange Personality

Krin GABBARD: Miles Davis and the Soundtrack of Modernity
William LUHR and Peter LEHMAN: Experiment in Terror: Dystopian Modernism, the Police Procedural, and the Space of Anxiety
David STERRITT: Fuller, Foucault, and Forgetting: The Eye of Power in Shock Corridor
Murray POMERANCE: Nothing Sacred: Dramaturgical Modernism in Catch Me If You Can

On the Move

Patrice PETRO: Legacies of Weimar Cinema
Tom CONLEY: L'Atalante's Modern Waterways
Joe McELHANEY: Fast Talk: Preston Sturges and the Speed of Language

Modern Thoughts

Tom GUNNING: Modernity and Cinema: A Culture of Shocks and Flows
William ROTHMAN: Film, Modernity, Cavell