Preface and Acknowledgements

PART I : EMERGENCE OF CINEMA
1. Cinema, Society, and Science
2. Early Cinema
3. Film as Art and Industry
4. The Global Spread of Film

PART II : THE SILENT ERA
5. The Rise of Hollywood
6. The Cinemas of Europe
7. Soviet Cinema
8. The Transition to Sound

PART III : CLSSSIC CINEMA
9. Hollywood Genres
10. Meeting Hollywood's Challenge
11. Documentary, Propaganda, and Politics
12. Film and World War

PART IV : POSTWAR TRANSFORMATION
13. Italian Neorealism
14. Hollywood's Struggles
15. Art Cinema of Europe and Aisa
16. Hollywood in the 1950s

PART V : The Revival of Cinema
17. The French New Wave
18. Cinema of Liberation
19. The New Documentary
20. American Film : Turmoil and Transformation

PART VI : The Expansion of Cinema
21. European Films of the 1960s and 1970s
22. Hollywood Recovery
23. The Cinematic Avant-Garde
24. The Global Advance of Cinema

PART VII : CINEMA BEGINS SECOND CENTURY
25. English-Languae Art Cinema
26. New European Film
27. World Cinema
28. American Cinema
Bibliography
Glossary
Filmography
Index
Credits