The American Cinema

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Contents: 1. Perspective on the American Cinema = 1 2. Hale's Tours - Ultrarealism in the Pre-1910 Motion Picture = 13 3. The Edison Motion Pictures-Early Days = 25 4. The D.W. Griffith Years = 39 5. Lillian Gish : Reflections = 61 6. The Schematized Vision of Joef von Sternberg: "Blonde Venus" = 79 7. The Preservation of America's Film Heritage = 91 8. Four Great Comedians of the Silent Cinema = 103 9. Frank Capra : The Ideal and The Real = 121 10. Griffith to Eisenstein and Back = 139 11. Documentaty Film and Government = 153 12. Film and Reality = 165 13. Flaherty-Father of the American Documentary = 181 14. Experimental Cinema in America : The First 25 Years = 203 15. Our Space in Our Time : The New American Cinema = 217 16. The Gangster Film = 233 17. The Studio Years = 247 18. Rouben Mamoulian : The Artistic Innovator = 261 19. Hollywood's Political Blacklist = 275 20. The Newsreel on the American Screens = 287 21. Postwar Cinema - The Italian War Bride = 299 22. The Western = 311 23. The Motion Picture in U.S.Education = 327 24. The New Wave Washes the American Screen = 341 25. The State of Cinema Criticism in the U.S. = 353 26. Don Siegel : Speaking Frankly = 363 27. U.S.Contemporary Cinema Scene = 385 28. American Cinema Update - 1981 = 401

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