Preface.
1. Birth and Childhood of a New Art * 1895–1914
Brief Motion-Picture Records of Actuality and of Performances
Telling Stories through Staged and Filmed Pantomime
Telling Stories through Filmic Means
The Language of Film
Increasing Films to Feature Length
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
2. Rise of the American Film * 1914–1919
The First American Epics
A Tradition of Screen Comedy Is Established
Emerging Patterns of Industry
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
3. Great German Silents * 1919–1928
Predominant Types and Themes
Principal Technical and Stylistic Advances
Influence on Hollywood
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
4. Art and Dialectic in the Soviet Film * 1925–1929
Historical Setting
Beginnings
Three Silent Masters
Montage: Theory and Practice
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
5. Hollywood in the Twenties * 1919–1929
Movies Become Big Business
Ascendancy of the Director
Popular Genres
Sound Arrives
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
6. France in the Twenties and Thirties * 1919–1939
The First Avant-Garde: Impressionism
The Second Avant-Garde: Pure Cinema
The Golden Age of the 1930s
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
7. Hollywood in the Thirties and Early Forties * 1929–1945
The Industry
Censorship, Self-Regulation, and Pressure Groups
Color
Notable Directors of the 1930s
Emergent Genres in the 1930s
Wartime
A 1940s Genre: Film Noir
Orson Welles: Boy Genius
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
8. Italian Neorealism * 1945–1952
Theory and Practice of Neorealism
Three Major Directors of the Neorealist Era
Period of Transition: 1952–1960
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
9. The Documentary Impulse: British Film after the War * 1945–1963
Postwar Comedies
Free Cinema and Social-Realist Features
The Gothic Strain
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
10. Hollywood in Transition * 1945–1962
Television
New Screen Processes
Fall of the Studios, Rise of the Independents
Internationalization
Loosened Controls on Content
Liberalism, Communism, and Anti-Communism: The House Un-American
Activities Committee and Blacklisting
Major Genres
American Directors of the 1950s
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
11. Japanese Film: A Pictorial Tradition and a Modernist Edge * 1951–
The Japanese Style
Three Japanese Masters
Japanese New Wave
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
12. Films of the Auteurs: The French New Wave * 1954–1968
Auteurism
Precursors to the New Wave
The New Wave Arrives
New Wave Directors
Left Bank Directors and Others
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
13. Other Western European Cinemas: National Cinemas or Eurofilms? * 1945–
Scandinavia
Germany
Spain
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
14. Eastern European Cinema: Film Making for the State and Beyond * 1954–
Poland
The Czech Republic
The Soviet Union and After
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
15. India: A People’s Cinema * 1956–
State of the Industry
Auteurs of the Golden Age
New Indian Cinema
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
16. Modernism and Metaphor: Italy * 1960–
Emergence of a New Style: Three Directors of the 1960s
Neo-Neorealism: Three Directors of the 1960s and 1970s
Industry Tavails
The 1970s and Beyond: A Metaphoric Cinema
Popular Genres
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
17. American Reemergence * 1963–1974
Popular Genres
The American New Wave
Independent Voices
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
18. Art Cinema Lite: British Film * 1963–
State of the Industry
British Comedy Flourishes
New Social Critiques
British Postmodernism
Americans Abroad
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
19. New Theories, New Films: France * 1968–
A Radicalized Godard
After the New Wave
Generic Continuities
A New Crop of Auteurs
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
20. A Blockbuster Mentality United States * 1975–1993
State of the Industry
Technological Advances
Emerging Genres
Studio Stalwarts
Independent Voices
Representing Diversity
Multinationalism
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
21. China: Three Cinemas * 1984–
Mainland China
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
22. Latin American: Progressive Politics with a Tropical Beat
Cuba
Brazil
Mexico
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
23. Recent National Movements * 1959–
Africa
Australia and New Zealand
Canada
Iran
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
23. The Digital Future: United States * 1994–
Technology on Fast Forward
State of the Industry
Bigger Blockbusters
An Auteur for the Fin de Siècle
Representing Diversity, Part 2
A New Life for Documentaries
Films of the Period
Political and Cultural Milestones of the Period
Index.
