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Preface	p. vii
Birth and Childhood of a New Art - 1895-1914	p. 1
Brief Motion-Picture Records of Actuality and of Performances	p. 1
Telling Stories through Staged and Filmed Pantomime	p. 6
Telling Stories through Filmic Means	p. 10
The Language of Film	p. 16
Increasing Films to Feature Length	p. 20
Films of the Period	p. 24
Books on ... MOREthe Period	p. 25
Rise of the American Film - 1914-1919	p. 26
The First American Epics	p. 27
A Tradition of Screen Comedy Is Established	p. 38
Emerging Patterns of Industry	p. 45
Films of the Period	p. 49
Books on the Period	p. 49
Great German Silents - 1919-1928	p. 51
Predominant Types and Themes	p. 52
Principal Technical and Stylistic Advances	p. 60
Mirror of the Culture	p. 66
Influence on Hollywood	p. 66
Films of the Period	p. 68
Books on the Period	p. 69
Art and Dialectic in the Soviet Film - 1925-1929	p. 70
Historical Setting	p. 71
Beginnings	p. 72
Three Silent Masters	p. 75
Montage: Theory and Practice	p. 83
Films of the Period	p. 87
Books on the Period	p. 87
Hollywood in the Twenties - 1919-1929	p. 88
Movies Become Big Business	p. 88
Ascendancy of the Director	p. 91
Popular Genres	p. 97
Sound Arrives	p. 104
Films of the Period	p. 110
Books on the Period	p. 111
France in the Twenties and Thirties - 1919-1939	p. 112
The First Avant-Garde: Impressionism	p. 113
The Second Avant-Garde: Pure Cinema	p. 115
The Golden Age of the 1930s	p. 117
Films of the Period	p. 125
Books on the Period	p. 126
Hollywood in the Thirties and Early Forties - 1929-1945	p. 127
The Industry	p. 128
Censorship, Self-Regulation, and Pressure Groups	p. 131
Notable Directors of the 1930s	p. 132
Emergent Genres in the 1930s	p. 137
Wartime	p. 150
A 1940s Genre: Film Noir	p. 152
Orson Welles: Boy Genius	p. 155
Films of the Period	p. 157
Books on the Period	p. 159
Postwar Italy: Neorealism and Beyond - 1945-	p. 161
Theory and Practice of Neorealism	p. 163
Two Major Directors of the Neorealist Era	p. 166
Period of Transition: 1952-1960	p. 168
Emergence of a New Style: Three Directors of the 1960s	p. 170
Neo-Neorealism: Three Directors of the 1960s and 1970s	p. 180
The 1970s and Beyond: A New Generation of Film Makers	p. 182
Films of the Period	p. 189
Books on the Period	p. 192
British Film after the War: Humor, Horror, and Social Criticism - 1945-	p. 193
The Griersonian Documentary Tradition	p. 194
Postwar Comedies	p. 196
Free Cinema and Social-Realist Features	p. 199
The Gothic Strain	p. 204
Americans Abroad	p. 210
State of the Industry	p. 214
Films of the Period	p. 216
Books on the Period	p. 219
Films of the Auteurs: The French New Wave and After - 1954-	p. 220
Auteurism	p. 220
Precursors to the New Wave	p. 222
The New Wave Arrives	p. 225
New Wave Directors	p. 231
Left Bank Directors and Others	p. 236
New Politics and New Theories of Authorship	p. 241
After the New Wave	p. 243
Films of the Period	p. 249
Books on the Period	p. 252
Other Western European Cinemas: National Cinemas or Eurofilms? - 1945-	p. 253
Scandinavia	p. 254
Germany	p. 261
Spain	p. 269
Films of the Period	p. 276
Books on the Period	p. 279
Eastern European Cinema: Film Making for the State - 1954-	p. 280
Poland	p. 282
Hungary	p. 290
Czechoslovakia	p. 293
Yugoslavia	p. 298
The Soviet Union and After	p. 301
Films of the Period	p. 307
Books on the Period	p. 311
Japanese Film: A Pictorial Tradition and a Modernist Edge - 1951-	p. 312
The Japanese Style	p. 313
Three Japanese Masters	p. 315
Other Japanese Film Makers of the Classic Era	p. 322
The Japanese New Wave	p. 324
Recent Developments	p. 327
Films of the Period	p. 329
Books on the Period	p. 331
Other Asian Film-Making Traditions - 1956-	p. 332
India: Film and National Identity	p. 332
China: Three Cinemas	p. 340
Films of the Period	p. 351
Books on the Period	p. 353
Hollywood in Transition - 1945-1962	p. 354
Television	p. 355
New Screen Processes	p. 357
Fall of the Studios, Rise of the Independents	p. 361
Internationalization	p. 362
Loosened Controls on Content	p. 363
Liberalism, Communism, and Anti-Communism: The House Un-American Activities Committee and Blacklisting	p. 367
Major Genres	p. 370
American Directors of the 1950s	p. 375
Films of the Period	p. 380
Books on the Period	p. 381
American Reemergence - 1963-1974	p. 382
Popular Genres	p. 383
The American New Wave	p. 385
Independent Voices	p. 395
Films of the Period	p. 402
Books on the Period	p. 403
Recent National Movements - 1959-	p. 404
Latin America	p. 404
Africa	p. 415
Australia	p. 417
Canada	p. 422
Iran	p. 426
Films of the Period	p. 429
Books on the Period	p. 434
Here and Now: United States - 1975-	p. 435
The Economy and Technology	p. 435
Emerging Genres	p. 440
Studio Stalwarts	p. 448
Independent Voices	p. 453
Multicultural Agendas	p. 459
Multinationalism	p. 469
Films of the Period	p. 471
Books on the Period	p. 474
Index	p. 475
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