Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface Part One: Early Cinema1 The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s - 19042 The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905 - 19123 National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism and World War I, 1913 - 1919Part Two: The Late Silent Era, 1919 - 19294 France in the 1920s5 Germany in the 1920s6 Soviet Cinema in the 1920s7 The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920 - 19288 International Trends of the 1920sPart Three: The Development of Sound Cinema, 1926 - 19459 The Introduction of Sound10 The Hollywood Studio System, 1930 - 194511 Other Studio Systems12 Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930 - 194513 France: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front and the Occupation, 1930 - 194514 Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinema, 1930 - 1945Part Four: The Postwar Era, 1945 - 1960s15 American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - 196016 Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945 - 195917 Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945 - 195918 Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945 - 195919 Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship20 New Waves and Young Cinema, 1958 - 196721 Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945 - Mid 1960sPart Five: The Contemporary Cinema Since the 1960s22 Hollywood's Fall and Rise, 1960 - 198023 Politically Critical Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s24 Documentary and Experimental Film Since the Late 1960s25 New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970sWestern Europe Eastern Europe and the USSR26 A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas since 1970New Cinemas, New Audiences27 Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania since 1970Part Six: Cinema in the Age of New Media28 American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy: The 1980s and After29 Toward a Global Film Culture30 Digital Technology and the Cinema

College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Studies Doctor of Philiosophy major in Literature

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