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Contents Preface = ix Acknowledgments = ix About the Author = xi 1 Beginnings = 2 2 Griffith and His Contemporaries: 1908-1920 = 20 3 American Cinema in the 1920s = 44 Major Fimmakers = 48 Talkies = 69 4 European Cinema in the 1920s = 76 Soviet Union = 78 Germany = 85 France = 92 5 The Hollywood Studio System = 102 The Box Office = 104 The Studio System = 107 The Star System = 115 The System of Genres = 120 6 American Cinema in the 1930s = 128 The Talkie Era = 130 New Genres: Gangster Pictures, Musicals, Screwball Comedy = 133 Major Filmmakers = 141 7 European Cinema in the 1930s = 158 Germany = 160 Great Britain = 164 France = 169 8 Anerican Cinema in the 1940s = 180 Decline of the Stueio System = 183 World WAr II = 184 Major Filmmakers = 185 Film Noir and Postwar Realism = 202 9 European Cinema in the 1940s = 206 Germany = 209 France = 211 Soviet Union = 212 Great Britain = 214 Italy = 220 10 Anerican Cinema in the 1950s = 232 New Screens = 236 The red Scare = 239 Social REalism = 241 Method Acting = 243 Major Filmmakers = 279 11 International Cinema in the 1950s = 260 Japan = 262 Ingmar bergman = 277 Federico Fellini = 280 France = 284 12 American Cinema in the 1960s = 288 The Bloated Era = 290 Major Filmmakers = 294 New Directions = 303 13 International Cinema in the 1960s = 316 France = 318 Great Britain = 331 Italy = 341 Eastern Europe = 347 14 Anerican Cinema in the 1970s = 352 The Vietnam-Watergate Era = 354 The New Cinema = 357 Major Figures = 368 15 International Cinema in the 1970s = 384 Great Britain = 386 France = 388 West Germany = 391 Italy = 399 Eastern Europe = 404 Australia = 406 The Third World = 413 16 American Cinema in the 1980s = 418 Technology and the Marketplace = 420 The Reagan Era = 424 The Mainstream = 425 The Mavericks = 429 17 International Cinema in the 1980s = 442 Great Britain = 444 Wertern Europe = 455 U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe = 461 The Third World = 463 Japan = 467 18 American Cinema in the 1990s = 472 The Hollywood Studios = 474 The Bright Side = 482 Major Filmmakers = 486 The Independent Cinema = 491 19 International Cinema in the 1990s = 502 Hollywood Uber Alles = 504 Great Britain = 507 Ireland = 517 Continental Europe = 523 Emerging Cinemas = 526 Australia and New Zealand = 528 20 Global Cinema Since 2000 = 532 Europe = 534 Island cinema = 538 Hong Kong/China = 543 United States = 549 The Hollywood Stueios = 551 Technology and the Marketplace = 552 Major Fitures and Trends = 557 Emerging Artists = 563 Glossary = 571 Index = 579

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