EBOOK: Film History: An Introduction

Part 1: Early Cinema
1 The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s-1904
2 The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905-1912
3 National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism and World War I, 1913-1919


Part 2: The Late Silent Era, 1919-1929
4 France in the 1920s
5 Germany in the 1920s
6 Soviet Cinema in the 1920s
7 The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920-1928
8 International Trends of the 1920s


Part 3: The Development of Sound Cinema, 1926-1945
9 The Introduction of Sound
10 The Hollywood Studio System, 1930 1945
11 Other Studio Systems
12 Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945
13 France: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front and the Occupation, 1930-1945
14 Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinema, 1930-1945


Part 4: The Postwar Era, 1946-1960s
15 American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1946-1960 1946/1947/1948
16 Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945-1959 The Postwar Context
17 Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945-1959
18 Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945-1959
19 Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship The Rise and Spread of the Auteur Theory Authorship and the Growth of the Art Cinema
20 New Waves and Young Cinema, 1958-1967
21 Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945-Mid-1960s


Part 5: The Contemporary Cinema Since the 1960s
22 Hollywood's Fall and Rise, 1960-1980
23 Politically Critical Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
24 Documentary and Experimental Film Since the Late 1960s
25 New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970s Western Europe
26 A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas since 1970 New Cinemas, New Audiences
27 Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania since 1970


Part 6: Cinema in the Age of New Media
28 American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy: The 1980s and After
29 Toward a Global Film Culture
30 Digital Technology and the Cinema