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| Preface | |
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| Birth and Childhood of a New Art - 1895-1914 | |
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| Brief Motion-Picture Records of Actuality and of Performances | |
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| Telling Stories through Staged and Filmed Pantomime | |
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| Telling Stories through Filmic Means | |
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| The Language of Film | |
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| Increasing Films to Feature Length | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Rise of the American Film - 1914-1919 | |
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| The First American Epics | |
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| A Tradition of Screen Comedy Is Established | |
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| Emerging Patterns of Industry | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Great German Silents - 1919-1928 | |
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| Predominant Types and Themes | |
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| Principal Technical and Stylistic Advances | |
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| Mirror of the Culture | |
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| Influence on Hollywood | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Art and Dialectic in the Soviet Film - 1925-1929 | |
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| Historical Setting | |
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| Beginnings | |
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| Three Silent Masters | |
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| Montage: Theory and Practice | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Hollywood in the Twenties - 1919-1929 | |
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| Movies Become Big Business | |
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| Ascendancy of the Director | |
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| Popular Genres | |
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| Sound Arrives | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| France in the Twenties and Thirties - 1919-1939 | |
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| The First Avant-Garde: Impressionism | |
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| The Second Avant-Garde: Pure Cinema | |
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| The Golden Age of the 1930s | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Hollywood in the Thirties and Early Forties - 1929-1945 | |
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| The Industry | |
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| Censorship, Self-Regulation, and Pressure Groups | |
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| Notable Directors of the 1930s | |
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| Emergent Genres in the 1930s | |
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| Wartime | |
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| A 1940s Genre: Film Noir | |
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| Orson Welles: Boy Genius | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Postwar Italy: Neorealism and Beyond - 1945- | |
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| Theory and Practice of Neorealism | |
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| Two Major Directors of the Neorealist Era | |
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| Period of Transition: 1952-1960 | |
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| Emergence of a New Style: Three Directors of the 1960s | |
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| Neo-Neorealism: Three Directors of the 1960s and 1970s | |
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| The 1970s and Beyond: A New Generation of Film Makers | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| British Film after the War: Humor, Horror, and Social Criticism - 1945- | |
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| The Griersonian Documentary Tradition | |
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| Postwar Comedies | |
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| Free Cinema and Social-Realist Features | |
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| The Gothic Strain | |
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| Americans Abroad | |
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| State of the Industry | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Films of the Auteurs: The French New Wave and After - 1954- | |
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| Auteurism | |
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| Precursors to the New Wave | |
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| The New Wave Arrives | |
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| New Wave Directors | |
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| Left Bank Directors and Others | |
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| New Politics and New Theories of Authorship | |
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| After the New Wave | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Other Western European Cinemas: National Cinemas or Eurofilms? - 1945- | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| Germany | |
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| Spain | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Eastern European Cinema: Film Making for the State - 1954- | |
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| Poland | |
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| Hungary | |
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| Czechoslovakia | |
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| Yugoslavia | |
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| The Soviet Union and After | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Japanese Film: A Pictorial Tradition and a Modernist Edge - 1951- | |
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| The Japanese Style | |
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| Three Japanese Masters | |
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| Other Japanese Film Makers of the Classic Era | |
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| The Japanese New Wave | |
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| Recent Developments | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Other Asian Film-Making Traditions - 1956- | |
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| India: Film and National Identity | |
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| China: Three Cinemas | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Hollywood in Transition - 1945-1962 | |
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| Television | |
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| New Screen Processes | |
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| Fall of the Studios, Rise of the Independents | |
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| Internationalization | |
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| Loosened Controls on Content | |
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| Liberalism, Communism, and Anti-Communism: The House Un-American Activities Committee and Blacklisting | |
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| Major Genres | |
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| American Directors of the 1950s | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| American Reemergence - 1963-1974 | |
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| Popular Genres | |
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| The American New Wave | |
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| Independent Voices | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Recent National Movements - 1959- | |
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| Latin America | |
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| Africa | |
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| Australia | |
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| Canada | |
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| Iran | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Here and Now: United States - 1975- | |
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| The Economy and Technology | |
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| Emerging Genres | |
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| Studio Stalwarts | |
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| Independent Voices | |
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| Multicultural Agendas | |
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| Multinationalism | |
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| Films of the Period | |
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| Books on the Period | |
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| Index | |