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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Emergence of Cinema | |
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| Cinema, Society, and Science | |
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| The Prehistory of Cinema | |
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| Recorded Movement | |
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| Projected Films | |
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| The Advent of Motion Pictures | |
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| Early Films | |
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| Early Cinema | |
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| Rediscovery of Early Cinema | |
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| Cinematic Time | |
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| Edwin S. Porter | |
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| The Transformation of Early Cinema | |
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| The Nickelodeon Era | |
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| David Wark Griffith | |
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| Film As Art and Industry | |
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| D. W. Griffith and Narrative Style | |
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| Feature Films | |
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| Epic Films | |
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| Comedy | |
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| Stars | |
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| Series and Serials | |
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| Film and World War I | |
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| The Global Spread of Film | |
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| Filmmaking Outside Europe and the United States | |
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| Through Western Eyes | |
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| Architectural Exoticism | |
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| Hollywood's Global Domination | |
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| The Silent Era | |
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| Hollywood in the 1920s | |
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| The Rise of Hollywood | |
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| The Film Director | |
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| The Power of Stars | |
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| Hollywood Genres | |
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| Alternatives to Hollywood | |
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| The Cinemas of Europe | |
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| German Cinema | |
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| French Cinema | |
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| International Cinema | |
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| The Punishment of Women | |
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| Soviet Cinema | |
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| Agit-Trains | |
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| Lev Kuleshov | |
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| Sergei Eisenstein | |
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| Dziga Vertov | |
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| Other Soviet Filmmakers | |
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| Art and Ideology | |
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| The Transition to Sound | |
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| Telecommunications and Film Sound | |
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| Color and Widescreen | |
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| Music and Effects Track | |
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| The Advent of Sound | |
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| The Art of Sound | |
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| Sound and Language | |
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| Classic Cinema | |
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| Hollywood Genres | |
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| The Dream Machine | |
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| The Classical Era | |
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| Genre Developments | |
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| The Production Code and Its Effects | |
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| Hollywood Production Values | |
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| An Establishment Cinema | |
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| Orson Welles | |
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| Meeting Hollywood's Challenge | |
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| State Control over Cinema | |
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| Filmmaking Outside Europe | |
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| Britain | |
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| France | |
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| Documentary, Propaganda, and Politics | |
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| The City Symphony | |
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| British Documentary | |
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| Films of the Left | |
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| Nazi Documentary | |
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| United States | |
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| Film and World War II | |
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| United States Fiction Films | |
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| U.S. Documentaries | |
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| Britain | |
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| Soviet Union | |
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| Germany, Italy, Japan | |
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| Occupation Cinema | |
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| Postwar Transformation | |
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| Italian Neorealism | |
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| Beginnings of Neorealism | |
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| Varieties of Neorealism | |
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| Neorealism's Legacy | |
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| Hollywood's Struggles | |
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| Political Challenges to Hollywood | |
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| Film Noir | |
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| Independent Production | |
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| Genre Revivals | |
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| Art Cinema of Europe and Asia | |
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| International Cinema | |
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| Japan | |
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| Italy | |
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| Film Authors of the 1950s | |
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| Years of Fruition | |
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| Hollywood in the 1950s | |
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| Decline or Artistic Triumph? | |
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| Three-dimension and Widescreen Films | |
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| Hollywood Auteurs | |
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| Genres and Movements of the 1950s | |
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| The Revival of Cinema | |
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| The French New Wave | |
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| Critique of French Cinema | |
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| The New Wave Begins | |
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| French Film in the 1960s | |
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| Jean-Luc Godard | |
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| French Cinema and Society | |
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| Cinema of Liberation | |
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| The Battle of Algiers | |
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| China | |
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| Cinema Novo in Brazil | |
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| Latin American Cinema | |
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| African Cinema | |
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| The Japanese "New Wave" | |
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| The New Documentary | |
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| Cinema Verite | |
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| Direct Cinema | |
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| Documentary Film and the Vietnam War | |
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| Documentary Renaissance | |
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| American Film: Turmoil and Transformation | |
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| The Early 1960s | |
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| Movies and Social Movements | |
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| Genre Revision | |
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| The "Movie Brats" | |
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| The Expansion of Cinema | |
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| European Films of the 1960s and 1970s | |
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| The International Medium | |
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| The Question of National Cinema | |
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| Eastern European and Soviet Film | |
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| European Cinema Without Borders | |
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| New German Cinema | |
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| Hollywood Recovery | |
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| Financial Revolutions | |
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| The Neglected "Golden Age" | |
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| The New Blockbuster | |
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| U.S. Films and Filmmakers | |
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| African-American Filmmakers | |
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| Beyond Formula | |
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| The Cinematic Avant-Garde | |
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| Maya Deren | |
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| Alternative Filmmakers of the 1960s | |
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| European Alternative Cinema | |
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| Alternative Cinema in the 1980s | |
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| Alternative Nonfiction | |
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| Gay and Lesbian Cinema | |
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| The Global Advance of Cinema | |
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| Australian Cinema | |
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| Cinema of the "Three Chinas" | |
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| The End of Soviet Cinema | |
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| International Art Cinema | |
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| The Global Voice of Cinema | |
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| Cinema Begins Its Second Century | |
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| English-Language Art Cinema | |
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| American Independents | |
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| British Art Cinema | |
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| Filmmakers of Australia, New Zealand, Canada | |
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| Independent Nonfiction | |
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| New European Film | |
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| Postcommunist Cinema | |
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| Other European Filmmakers | |
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| World Cinema | |
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| Iranian Cinema | |
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| Chinese Film | |
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| Contemporary World Filmmakers | |
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| American Cinema: Special Effects and Beyond | |
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| New Technologies | |
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| Hollywood Auteurs | |
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| Hollywood Genres | |
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| New Talent | |
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| The Future and the Past | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Filmography | |
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| Index | |
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| Credits | |