| Preface | |
| Birth and Childhood of a New Art 1895-1914 | |
| Brief Motion-Picture Records of Actuality and of Performances | |
| Telling Stories through Staged and Filmed Pantomime | |
| Telling Stories through Filmic Means | |
| The Language of Film | |
| Increasing Films to Feature Length | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Rise of the American Film 1914-1919 | |
| The First American Epics | |
| A Tradition of Screen Comedy Is Established | |
| Emerging Patterns of Industry | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Great German Silents 1919-1928 | |
| Predominant Types and Themes | |
| Principal Technical and Stylistic Advances | |
| Influence on Hollywood | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Art and Dialectic in the Soviet Film 1925-1929 | |
| Historical Setting | |
| Beginnings | |
| Three Silent Masters | |
| Montage: Theory and Practice | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Hollywood in the Twenties 1919-1929 | |
| Movies Become Big Business | |
| Ascendancy of the Director | |
| Popular Genres | |
| Sound Arrives | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| France in the Twenties and Thirties 1919-1939 | |
| The First Avant-Garde: Impressionism | |
| The Second Avant-Garde: Pure Cinema | |
| The Golden Age of the 1930s | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Hollywood in the Thirties and Early Forties 1929-1945 | |
| The Industry | |
| Censorship, Self-Regulation, and Pressure Groups | |
| Color | |
| Notable Directors of the 1930s | |
| Emergent Genres in the 1930s | |
| Wartime | |
| A 1940s Genre:Film Noir | |
| Orson Welles: Boy Genius | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Italian Neorealism 1945-1952 | |
| Theory and Practice of Neorealism | |
| Three Major Directors of the Neorealist Era | |
| Period of Transition: 1952-1960 | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| The Documentary Impulse: British Film after the War 1945-1963 | |
| Postwar Comedies | |
| Free Cinema and Social-Realist Features | |
| The Gothic Strain | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Hollywood in Transition 1945-1962 | |
| Television | |
| New Screen Processes | |
| Fall of the Studios, Rise of the Independents | |
| Internationalization | |
| Loosened Controls on Content | |
| Liberalism, Communism, and Anti-Communism: The House Un-American | |
| Activities Committee and Blacklisting | |
| Major Genres | |
| American Directors of the 1950s | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Japanese Film: A Pictorial Tradition and a Modernist Edge 1951- | |
| The Japanese Style | |
| Three Japanese Masters | |
| Japanese New Wave | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Films of the Auteurs: The French New Wave 1954-1968 | |
| Auteurism | |
| Precursors to the New Wave | |
| The New Wave Arrives | |
| New Wave Directors | |
| Left Bank Directors and Others | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Other Western European Cinemas: National Cinemas or Eurofilms? 1945- | |
| Scandinavia | |
| Germany | |
| Spain | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Eastern European Cinema: Film Making for the State and Beyond 1954- | |
| Poland | |
| The Czech Republic | |
| The Soviet Union and After | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| India: A People's Cinema 1956- | |
| State of the Industry | |
| Auteurs of the Golden Age | |
| New Indian Cinema | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Modernism and Metaphor: Italy 1960- | |
| Emergence of a New Style: Three Directors of the 1960s | |
| Neo-Neorealism: Three Directors of the 1960s and 1970s | |
| Industry Tavails | |
| The 1970s and Beyond: A Metaphoric Cinema | |
| Popular Genres | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| American Reemergence 1963-1974 | |
| Popular Genres | |
| The American New Wave | |
| Independent Voices | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Art Cinema Lite: British Film 1963- | |
| State of the Industry | |
| British Comedy Flourishes | |
| New Social Critiques | |
| British Postmodernism | |
| Americans Abroad | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| New Theories, New Films: France 1968 | |
| A Radicalized Godard | |
| After the New Wave | |
| Generic Continuities | |
| A New Crop of Auteurs | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| A Blockbuster Mentality | |
| United States 1975-1993 | |
| State of the Industry | |
| Technological Advances | |
| Emerging Genres | |
| Studio Stalwarts | |
| Independent Voices | |
| Representing Diversity | |
| Multinationalism | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| China: Three Cinemas 1984 | |
| Mainland China | |
| Hong Kong | |
| Taiwan | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Latin American: Progressive Politics with a Tropical Beat | |
| Cuba | |
| Brazil | |
| Mexico | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Recent National Movements 1959 | |
| Africa | |
| Australia and New Zealand | |
| Canada | |
| Iran | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| The Digital Future: United States 1994 | |
| Technology on Fast Forward | |
| State of the Industry | |
| Bigger Blockbusters | |
| AnAuteur for theFin de Siècle | |
| Representing Diversity, Part 2 | |
| A New Life for Documentaries | |
| Films of the Period | |
| Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period | |
| Index | |
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