Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Birth of an Industry
2. The End of Empire: Revolution, Reaction and the "Talkies"
3. Quotas, Foreigners and Co-Productions
4. The 1930s and the Second World War
5. Somewhere in Europe: Reconstruction and Stalinism
6. Upturns, Downturns and Merry-Go-Rounds: The Road to 1956
7. The 1960s: New Directors, New Films, New Wave
8. The 1970s and the 1980s: The Transitional Years
9. The Walls Come Down: The "System Change" and After
10. Documentary, Animation and the Avant-Garde
11. Jews, Gypsies and Others
12. Foci, Fradi and the "Golden Team"
13. Conclusion

About the Author

John Cunningham teaches Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and at the London Cener, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

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