Preface. 1.Introductory Assumptions. 2.Birth. Persistence of Vision.
Photography.
Thomas Edison.
Projection.
The First Films.
3.Film Narrative, Commercial Expansion. Early Companies.
Narrative.
Business Wars.
The Film d'Art.
4.Griffith. Apprenticeship.
The Birth of a Nation. Intolerance. 1917-31.
5.Mack Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts. Krazy Keystones.
Charlie.
6.Movie Czars and Movie Stars. Stars over Hollywood.
The Emperors and Their Rule.
Morality.
Films and Filmmakers, 1910-28.
The Comics.
Hollywood and the Jazz Age.
7.The German Golden Age. Expressionism, Realism, and the Studio Film.
Fantasy.
Psychology.
The End of an Era.
8.Soviet Montage. The Kuleshov Workshop.
Sergei M. Eisenstein.
Vsevolod I. Pudovkin.
Other Major Figures.
Socialist Realism.
9.Sound. Processes.
Problems.
Solutions.
10.France between the Wars. Surrealism and Other Movements.
Gance and Dreyer.
Rene Clair.
Jean Renoir.
Vigo and Others.
11.The American Studio Years: 1930-45. Film Cycles and Cinematic Conventions.
The Comics.
Masters of Mood and Action.
12.Hollywood in Transition: 1946-65. Enemies Within: Freedom of Association and Free Entertainment.
Films in the Transitional Era.
Surfaces and Subversion.
Finding the Audience.
13.Neorealism and the New Wave. Italian Neorealism.
Romantics and Antiromantics.
France - Postwar Classicism.
1959 and After.
The French (and Italian) Revolution.
14.Emerging National Traditions 1: 1945- . Sweden and Denmark.
England.
Central and Eastern Europe.
Cinemas East.
15.Hollywood Renaissance: 1964-76 The New American
Auteurs. The Independent American Cinema.
16.Emerging National Traditions 2: 1968- . Das neue Kino. Third World Cinemas.
Up from Down Under, Down from Up Above.
Russia and the Former Soviet Union.
Iran.
The New Internationalism.
17.The Return of the Myths: 1977- . Star Wars and the New Mythology.
Leading Directors.
Business and Technology.
The Look of the Future.
Appendix: For Further Reading and Viewing. Distributors. Glossary. Acknowledgments. Index. 