Table of Contents

• 1. Introductory Assumptions
• 2. Birth
• 3. Film Narrative, Commercial Expansion
• 4. Griffith.
• 5. Mack Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts
• 6. Movie Czars and Movie Stars
• 7. The German Golden Age
• 8. Soviet Montage
• 9. Sound
• 10. France between the Wars
• 11. The American Studio Years: 1930-45
• 12. Hollywood in Transition: 1946-65
• 13. Neorealism, New Wave, and What Followed
• 14. National Cinemas: 1945-
• 15. Hollywood Renaissance: 1964-76
• 16. National Cinemas 2: 1968-
• 17. The Return of the Myths: 1977-
• 18. Conglomerates and Videos: 1975-
• 19. Digital Cinema: 1999-
• For Further Reading
• Distributors
• Glossary
• Acknowledgments
• Index