Movies

Introduction = 8 Shadows and Illusions: Cinema's Prehistory = 10 Roll ’em: Beginnings: The Early Days of Cinema = 12 D.W. Griffith: The Father of Modern Cinema = 14 Hooray for Hollywood: The Trust Wars = 16 Slapstick: The Silent Clowns = 18 Megalomaniacs with Megaphones: The Directors = 20 They Had Faces Then: The Stars = 22 Montage and Message: Soviet Cinema = 24 Shadows and Streets: German Cinema = 26 You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: The Talkies = 28 The Studio System: The Majors = 30 The Studio System: The Minors = 32 You Dirty Rat: The Great Gangsters = 34 Cheek to Cheek: Musicals = 36 Insults and Innuendo: Sharp-talking Comedy = 38 2,000 Words a Minute: Screwball Comedy = 40 Why Ask for the Moon?: Women's Pictures = 42 Home on the Range: Westerns = 44 The Swashbucklers: Early Action Heroes = 46 Hollywood Horror: Vampires, Monsters, and a Giant Ape = 48 The Kingdom of the Mouse: Birth of the Cartoon = 50 Cliffhangers and Crimebusters: Series and Serials = 52 Murder and MacGuffins: The Master of Suspense = 54 Flatcaps and Fantasy: Britain in the 30s = 56 Talking Heads and Flies on Walls: Documentary Cinema = 58 Impressions and Depressions: French Poetic Realism = 60 Look, Listen, Learn: Propaganda and War = 62 A Slice of Life: Neorealism = 64 Watch the Lady: Film Noir = 66 The Dream is Over: Hollywood in Crisis = 68 Bigger and Better?: Gimmicks and Gadgets = 70 Method amid the Madness: Playing Mean and Moody = 72 Epics: Big Cast, Huge Budget = 74 On the Town: Showstoppers = 76 Move Over, Darling: Romantic Comedy = 78 Double Bills and Drive-ins: Exploitation Movies = 80 Stiff Upper Lips and Coronets: British War Movies = 82 The Sun Rises: Japanese Cinema = 84 The Profound and the Profane: Bergman and Bunuel = 86 Bollywood and Beyond: Indian Cinema = 88 Gothic: Hammer House of Horror = 90 Nouvelle Vague: French Post-war Cinema = 92 The Italian Job: Seduction, Violence, and Blasphemy = 94 Kitchen Sink and Beyond: Britain's Angry Young Men = 96 New German Cinema: Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders = 98 Political Protest: Cinema Behind the Iron Curtain = 100 Global Cinema: Africa, Asia, and South America = 102 Global Cinema: The English Speakers = 104 Highway 61 Revisited: Road Movies = 106 Mavericks: Helles and Kubrick = 108 Paranoia and Parodies: Allen and Brooks = 110 The New Hollywood: My People Will Call your People = 112 From Angst to Escapism: Altman, Polanski and Spielberg = 114 Boom and Bust: Hollywood Blockbusters = 116 The Movie Brats: Coppola, Scorsese and De Palma = 118 Teens and Terror: Slashers and College Kids = 120 Make My Day: The Action Men = 122 Hasta La Vista. Baby: Event Movies = 124 Indie Cinema: New American Auteurs = 126 Breaking the Mold: Who Says All Directors Are White Men? = 128 Coming Soon: The Technology of Tomorrow = 130 Roll the Credits = 132 Directors' Cut = 134 Film Festival Calendar = 136 The Top Twenty = 137 Crib Sheet = 138 Index = 142 Photographic Credits = 144

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