PN 1993.5 .A1 C65

Includes bibliographical references (p. 943-1043) and index

1 Origins 1 2 International Expansion, 1907-1918 32 3 D. W. Griffith and the Development of Narrative Form 59 4 German Cinema of the Weimar Period, 1919-1929 102 5 Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, 1917-1931 130 6 Hollywood in the Twenties 196 7 The Coming of Sound and Color, 1926-1935 239 8 The Sound Film and the American Studio System 274 9 Europe in the Thirties 347 10 Orson Welles and the Modern Sound Film 392 11 Wartime and Postwar Cinema: Italy and The United States, 1940-1951 421 12 Hollywood, 1952-1965 461 13 The French New Wave and Its Native Context 516 14 New Cinemas in Britain and the English-Speaking Commonwealth 568 15 European Renaissance: West 607 16 European Renaissance: East 682 17 The Former Soviet Union, 1945-Present 781 18 Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China 828 19 Third World Cinema 877 20 Hollywood, 1965-Present 919

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