PN 1993.5 .A1 O96

Includes bibliographical references (p. 767-784) and index

The Early Years Origins and Survival / Paolo Cherchi Usai 6 Early Cinema / Roberta Pearson 13 Transitional Cinema / Roberta Pearson 23 The Rise of Hollywood The Hollywood Studio System / Douglas Gomery 43 The World-Wide Spread of Cinema / Ruth Vasey 53 The First World War and the Crisis in Europe / William Uricchio 62 The Silent Film Tricks and Animation / Donald Crafton 71 Comedy / David Robinson 78 Documentary / Charles Musser 86 Cinema and the Avant-Garde / A. L. Rees 95 Serials / Ben Singer 105 National Cinemas French Silent Cinema / Richard Abel 112 Italy: Spectacle and Melodrama / Paolo Cherchi Usai 123 British Cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock / John Hawkridge 130 Germany: The Weimar Years / Thomas Elsaesser 136 The Scandinavian Style / Paolo Cherchi Usai 151 Pre-Revolutionary Russia / Yuri Tsivian 159 The Soviet Union and the Russian Emigres / Natalia Nussinova 162 Yiddish Cinema in Europe / Marek Hendrykowski, Malgorzata Hendrykowski 174 Japan: Before the Great Kanto Earthquake / Hiroshi Komatsu 177 The Silent Cinema Experience Music and the Silent Film / Martin Marks 183 The Heyday of the Silents / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 192 Sound The Introduction of Sound / Karel Dibbets 211 The Studio Years Hollywood: The Triumph of the Studio System / Thomas Schatz 220 Censorship and Self-Regulation / Richard Maltby 235 The Sound of Music / Martin Marks 248 Technology and Innovation / John Belton 259 Animation / William Moritz 267 Genre Cinema Cinema and Genre / Rick Altman 276 The Western / Edward Buscombe 286 The Musical / Rick Altman 294 Crime Movies / Phil Hardy 304 The Fantastic / Vivian Sobchack 312 Engaging with Reality Documentary / Charles Musser 322 Socialism, Fascism, and Democracy / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 333 National Cinemas The Popular Art of French Cinema / Ginette Vincendeau 344 Italy from Fascism to Neo-Realism / Morando Morandini 353 Britain at the End of Empire / Antonia Lant 361 Germany: Nazism and After / Eric Rentschler 374 East Central Europe Before the Second World War / Malgorzata Hendrykowska 383 Soviet Film Under Stalin / Peter Kenez 389 Indian Cinema: Origins to Independence / Ashish Rajadhyaksha 398 China Before 1949 / Chris Berry 409 The Classical Cinema in Japan / Hiroshi Komatsu 413 The Emergence of Australian Film / Bill Routt 422 Cinema in Latin America / Michael Chanan 427 The Post-War World After the War / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 436 Transformation of the Hollywood System / Douglas Gomery 443 Independents and Mavericks / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 451 Cinema in the Age of Television Television and the Film Industry / Michele Hilmes 466 The New Hollywood / Douglas Gomery 475 New Technologies / John Belton 483 Sex and Sensation / Linda Williams 490 American Movies The Black Presence in American Cinema / Jim Pines 497 Exploitation and the Mainstream / Kim Newman 509 Dreams and Nightmares in the Hollywood Blockbuster / Joseph Sartelle 516 Extending the Boundaries Cinema Verite and the New Documentary / Charles Musser 527 Avant-Garde Film: The Second Wave / A. L. Rees 537 Animation in the Post-Industrial Era / William Moritz 551 Modern Film Music / Royal Brown 558 Art Cinema / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 567 Cinemas of the World New Directions in French Cinema / Peter Graham 576 Italy: Auteurs and After / Morando Morandini 586 Spain After Franco / Marsha Kinder 596 British Cinema: The Search for Identity / Duncan Petrie 604 The New German Cinema / Anton Kaes 614 East Germany: The DEFA Story / Hans-Michael Bock 627 Changing States in East Central Europe / Marek Hendrykowski 632 Russia After the Thaw / Vida Johnson 640 Cinema in the Soviet Republics / Jean Radvanyi 651 Turkish Cinema / Yusuf Kaplan 656 The Arab World / Roy Armes 661 The Cinemas of Sub-Saharan Africa / P. Vincent Magombe 667 Iranian Cinema / Hamid Naficy 672 India: Filming the Nation / Ashish Rajadhyaksha 678 Indonesian Cinema / David Hanan 690 China After the Revolution / Esther Yau 693 Popular Cinema in Hong Kong / Li Cheuk-To 704 Taiwanese New Cinema / June Yip 711 The Modernization of Japanese Film / Hiroshi Komatsu 714 New Australian Cinema / Stephen Crofts 722 New Zealand Cinema / Bill Routt 731 Canadian Cinema/Cinema Canadien / Jill McGreal 731 New Cinemas in Latin America / Michael Chanan 740 Conclusion: New Concepts of Cinema / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 750

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