Film history : an introduction.

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; 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; 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; 15. American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1946-1960; 16. Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945-1959; 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; 20. New Waves and Young Cinema, 1958-1967; 21. Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945-Mid-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; 26. A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas since 1970; 27. Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania since 1970; 28. American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy: The 1980s and After; 29. Toward a Global Film Culture; 30. Digital Technology and the Cinema