Falling Down

Jude Davis is Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Winchester, UK. She is the author of Diana, A Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess (Palgrave, 2001); the co-author with Carol Smith of Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film (1998); the editor of Theodore Dreiser, Political Writings (2011) and the co-editor with Neil Campbell and George McKay of Issues in Americanisation and Culture (2004).

• 1. Details of the Film and its Production2. Press, Audience and Critical Response on its Release3. An Outline of the Most Important Issues in Assessing its Impact4. A Survey of the Debates That Have Centred Around the Film5. Close Analysis of Key Scenes.

'He [Davies] deserves congratulation for having produced a lucid and engaging account of the cultural influences that helped to shape Falling Down's ideological inconsistencies, and for his thought-provoking analysis of the controversies to which these gave rise.' - Deborah Allison, Senses of Cinema, Issue 70, March 2014