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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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