THE LIVELIEST ART

1: AN ART IS BORN (1895-1920) = 1 The Machine for Seeing Better = 4 The Theater Sets the Stage = 10 Dawn of the Narrative Film: Méliès and Porter = 14 Toward an International Film = 18 The First Film d'Art = 20 The Father of Film Technique: D. W. Griffith = 22 The Creative Producer: Thomas H. Ince = 30 Sennett, the Keystone of American Comedy = 32 Chaplin and the Rise of the Star System = 37 Movies Become Big Business = 45 2: THE GROWTH OF AN ART (1920-1930) = 51 Germany's Golden Era = 52 The Shadow of Caligari = 54 The Street Films: Murnau and the Moving Camera = 56 Pabst and the Freudian Influence = 61 New Beginnings in Russia = 65 The Editing Principle: Vertov and Kuleshov = 67 Pudovkin and the Personal Epic = 70 Eisenstein and the Mass Epic = 72 Poetic Symbolism: Dovzhenko = 81 Postwar Decline in England and Italy = 85 Eclipse of the Scandinavian Film = 88 French Renaissance: Delluc, Clair, Feyder = 91 The Summing Up: Carl Dreyer = 97 The European Avant-Garde = 99 3: HOLLYWOOD IN THE TWENTIES = 108 Sin, Scandal and the Hays Office = 111 De Mille and the New Morality = 115 Hollywood Imports "Art" = 118 The Cowboys and the Clowns = 121 Sophistication and Style: Chaplin and Lubitsch = 128 Typecasting the Director = 133 The Rebel: Von Stroheim = 135 The Poet: Robert Flaherty = 140 The Compromise: Von Sternberg = 142 The End of the Silent Era = 145 4: THE MOVIES LEARN TO TALK = 148 Breaking the Sound Barrier = 150 The Tyranny of Sound = 153 Liberating the Camera: Ernst Lubitsch = 157 Mastering the Sound Track: René Clair = 161 Exploring the New Medium: Rouben Mamoulian = 163 New Forms, New Techniques = 166 Inspired Mayhem: The Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields = 171 Integration and Style: Astaire and Hitchcock = 174 The Script and the Stars = 177 The Art of the Sound Film = 182 The Integration of Style: Orson Welles = 185 5: INTERNATIONAL TRENDS = 195 France: Uncertainty and Despair = 196 Germany: Films for Propaganda = 202 Russia and the Satellites = 210 England and the Documentary Tradition = 223 The Course of Italian Neo-realism = 238 The Classic Art of the Japanese Film = 250 International Glimpses = 255 6: CHANGING TRENDS IN THE AMERICAN FILM = 261 The Rise of Documentary = 271 Art Films and the New Avant-Garde = 281 The Twilight of the Major Studios = 289 The Blacklist Years = 297 7: THE AUTEUR THEORY, AND A FEW OTHERS = 306 New Directors, New Directions = 330 GENERAL INDEX = 342 INDEX TO FILM TITLES = 355

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