Film History An Introduction

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PART ONE: EARLY CINEMA 1. The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema 2. The International Expansion of the Cinema 3. National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism, and World War I PART TWO: THE LATE SILENT ERA, 1919-1929 4. France in the 1920's 5. Germany in the 1920's 6. Soviet Cinema in the 1920's 7. The Late Silent Era in Hollywood 8. International Trends of the 1920's PART THREE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND CINEMA, 1926-1945 9. The Introduction of Sound 10. The Hollywood Studio System 11. Other Studio Systems 12. Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany and Italy 13. France: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front, and the Occupation 14. Leftist Documentary and Experimental Cinemas PART FOUR: THE POSTWAR ERA, 1946-1960's 15. American Cinema in the Postwar Era 16. Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and Other Trends 17. Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain 18. Postwar Cinema Beyond the West 19. Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship 20. New Waves and Young Cinemas 21. Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era PART FIVE: THE CONTEMPORARY CINEMA, 1960's TO THE PRESENT 22. Third World Cinema: Mass Production and Revolutionary Politics 23. Critical Political Cinema of the 1960's and 1970's 24. Documentary and Experimental Film 25. Hollywood's Fall and Rise: Since the 1960's 26. New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe, The USSR, and the Pacific Since the 1970s 27. New Cinemas in Developing Countries Since the 1970'sConclusionBibliography Glossary