Preface
About the Author
1. Beginnings.
2. Griffith and His Contemporaries: 1908-1920.
3. American Cinema in the 1920s.
Major Filmmakers
Talkies
4. European Cinema in the 1920s.
Soviet Union
Germany
France
5. The Hollywood Studio System.
The Box Office
The Studio System
The Star System
The System of Genres
6. American Cinema in the 1930s.
The Talkie Era
New Genres: Gangster Pictures, Musicals, Screwball Comedy
Major Filmmakers
7. European Cinema in the 1930s.
Germany
Great Britian
France
8. American Cinema in the 1940s.
Decline of the Studio System
World War II
Major Filmmakers
Film Noir and Postwar Realism
9. European Cinema in the 1940s.
Germany
France
Soviet Union
Great Britian
Italy
10. American Cinema in the 1950s.
New Screens
The Red Scare
Social Realism
Method Acting
Major Filmmakers
11. International Cinema in the 1950s.
Japan
Ingmar Bergman
Federico Fellini
France
12. American Cinema in the 1960s.
The Bloated Era
Major Filmmakers
New Directions
13. International Cinema in the 1960s.
France
Great Britian
Italy
Eastern Europe
14. American Cinema in the 1970s.
The Vietnam-Watergate Era
The New Cinema
Major Figures
15. International Cinema in the 1970s.
Great Britian
France
West Germany
Italy
Eastern Europe
Australia
The Third World
16. American Cinema in the 1980s.
Technology and the Marketplace
The Reagan Era
The Mainstream
The Mavericks
17. International Cinema in the 1980s.
Great Britian
Western Europe
U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe
The Third World
Japan
18. American Cinema in the 1990s.
The Hollywood Studios
The Bright Side
Major Filmmakers
The Independent Cinema
19. International Cinema in the 1990s.
Hollywood Uber Alles
Great Britian
Ireland
Continental Europe
Emerging Cinemas
Australia and New Zealand
20. Global Cinema since 2000.
Europe
Islamic Cinema
Hong Kong/China
United States
The Hollywood Studios
Technology and the Marketplace
Major Figures and Trends
Emerging Artists
Glossary
Index
Glossary.
Index.
