Preface
Part One: Early Cinema
1 The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s - 1904
2 The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905 - 1912
3 National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism and World War I, 1913 - 1919
Part Two: The Late Silent Era, 1919 - 1929
4 France in the 1920s
5 Germany in the 1920s
6 Soviet Cinema in the 1920s
7 The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920 - 1928
8 International Trends of the 1920s
Part Three: The Development of Sound Cinema, 1926 - 1945
9 The Introduction of Sound
10 The Hollywood Studio System, 1930 - 1945
11 Other Studio Systems
12 Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930 - 1945
13 France: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front and the Occupation, 1930 - 1945
14 Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinema, 1930 - 1945
Part Four: The Postwar Era, 1945 - 1960s
15 American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - 1960
16 Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945 - 1959
17 Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945 - 1959
18 Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945 - 1959
19 Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship
20 New Waves and Young Cinema, 1958 - 1967
21 Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - Mid 1960s
Part Five: The Contemporary Cinema Since the 1960s
22 Hollywood's Fall and Rise, 1960 - 1980
23 Politically Critical Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
24 Documentary and Experimental Film Since the Late 1960s
25 New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970s
Western Europe
Eastern Europe and the USSR
26 A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas since 1970New Cinemas, New Audiences
27 Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania since 1970
Part Six: Cinema in the Age of New Media
28 American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy: The 1980s and After
29 Toward a Global Film Culture
30 Digital Technology and the Cinema