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Listed after each chapter title are just some of the films/film makers /studios/actors featured in the sidebars for each section. PART 1: CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD CINEMA Introduction The Rise of the American Film Industry - The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Sunrise, King Kong The Studios - Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros, Columbia, 20th Century Fox, RKO, Universal Stars - Humphrey Bogart, Jane Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, Marlon Brando Classical Hollywood Narrative - Stagecoach, Marnie, His Girl Friday, Klute, Mildred Pierce PART 2: TECHNOLOGY Introduction Sound - The Jazz Singer, Apocalypse Now, Jurassic Park Colour - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Deep Focus - The Best Years of Our Lives, La Regle du jeu Lighting -Widescreen Rebel Without a Cause Cameras Alternative Production Formats Editing The 'New' Technologies - Titanic, The Mask, Terminator 2: Judgement Day Interactive Entertainments Virtual Reality PART 3: NATIONAL CINEMA AND FILM MOVEMENTS German Expressionism and New German Cinema - Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari, Nosferatu Soviet Cinema - The Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible Part 1 Italian Neo-Realism - La Strada, Paisa The French Nouvelle Vague - A bout de souffle, Les Quatre cents coups The British Film Industry - The Lavender Hill Mob, The Quatermass Experiment, Room at the Top PART 4: ALTERNATIVES TO CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD Early Cinema - After Brighton, The Great Train Robbery, The Lonedale Operator New Hollywood - Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction Art Cinema - Alice in den Stadten, L'Annee derniere a Marienbad, L'avventura, East Asian Cinema, Late Spring, Yellow Earth, Sisters of the Gion Avant-Garde and Counter-Cinema - Un Chien Andalou, Vent d'est, Privilege Third World and Postcolonial Cinema - Xala, Sankofa, Vidas Secas, La Hora de los Hornos Hindi Cinema - Pather Panchali, Sholay, Kaliya, Pyaasa PART 5: GENRE History Of Genre Criticism The Western - My Darling Clementine, Unforgiven Melodrama - Gaslight, Written on the Wind, Stella Dallas, All That Heaven Allows Crime - Gangsters, Detectives and Suspense Film Film Noir - Double Indemnity, Homicide, Secret Beyond the Door Science Fiction and Horror - Psycho, Alien, Dead Ringers, Star Wars The Musical - Meet Me in St Louis, Sweet Charity, Top Hat, Singin' in the Rain The Teenpic - Grease, Gummo, Rebel Without a Cause Comedy - Lover Come Back, Annie Hall, The Patsy Action-Adventure PART 6: AUTHORSHIP AND CINEMA Authorship and Art Cinema - Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, The 'politique des auteurs' Jean Renoir, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard The Auteur Theory - D.W. Griffith, Don Siegel, Nicholas Ray, Roger Corman Auteurism in Britain - Carol Reed, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Terence Fisher Structuralism and Auteur Study - Samuel Fuller, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, Raoul Walsh Auteurism After Structuralism - John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard Auteurism in the 1990s - Jane Campion, Peter Wier PART 7: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS Looking at Film - Three Colours: White, The Graduate Structuralism and its Aftermaths - Citizen Kane, Tout va bien, Kiss me Deadly, Rio Bravo, Psychoanalysis and Cinema, Manhunter, Blue Velvet, Blade Runner, Total Recall Feminist Film Theory - Morocco, Antonia's Line Film Theory and Spectatorship - Gone With the Wind, Queen Christina Contributors: Richard Abel, Guy Barefoot, Alison Butler, Pam Cook, Michael Allen, Elizabeth Cowie, James Donald, Leslie Felperin, Kathe Geist, Christine Gledhill, Michael Grant, Leighton Grist, Sheila Johnston, Noel King, Frank Krutnik, Annette Kuhn, Julia Knight, Andy Medhurst, Toby Miller, Steve Neale, Richard Neupert, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Julian Petley, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Jane Root, Thomas Shatz, Anneke Smelik, Murray Smith, Robert Stam, John Thompson, Rob White, Pamela Robertson Wojick