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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Special Features | |
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| List of Colour Illustrations | |
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| General Introduction | |
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| Silent Cinema 1895-1930 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Origins and Survival | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Early Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Transitional Cinema | |
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| The Hollywood Studio System | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The World-Wide Spread of Cinema | |
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| The First World War and the Crisis in Europe | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Tricks and Animation | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Comedy | |
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| Documentary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cinema and the Avant-Garde | |
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| Serials | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| French Silent Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Italy: Spectacle and Melodrama | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| British Cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock | |
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| Germany: the Weimar Years | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Scandinavian Style | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Pre-Revolutionary Russia | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Soviet Union and the Russian �migr�s | |
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| Yiddish Cinema in Europe | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Japan: Before the Great Kanto Earthquake | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Music and the Silent Film | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Heyday of the Silents | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Sound Cinema 1930-1960 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Introduction of Sound | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| the Triumph of the Studio System | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Censorship and Self-Regulation | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Sound of Music | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Technology and Innovation | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Animation | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cinema and Genre | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Western | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Musical | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Crime Movies | |
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| The Fantastic | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Documentary | |
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| Socialism, Fascism, and Democracy | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Popular Art of French Cinema | |
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| Italy from Fascism to Neo-Realism | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Britain at the End of Empire | |
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| Germany: Nazism and After | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| East Central Europe Before the Second World War | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Soviet Film Under Stalin | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Indian Cinema: Origins to Independence | |
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| China Before 1949 | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Classical Cinema in Japan | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Emergence of Australian Film | |
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| Cinema in Latin America | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| After the War | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Transformation of the Hollywood System | |
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| Independents and Mavericks | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Modern Cinema 1960-1995 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Television and the Film Industry | |
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| The New Hollywood | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Technologies | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Sex and Sensation | |
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| The Black Presence in American Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Exploitation and the Mainstream | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Dreams and Nightmares in the Hollywood Blockbuster | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cin�ma-V�rit� and the New Documentary | |
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| Avant-Garde Film: the Second Wave | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Animation in the Post-Industrial Era | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Modern Film Music | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Art Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Directions in French Cinema | |
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| Italy: Auteurs and After | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Spain After Franco | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| British Cinema: the Search for Identity | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The New German Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| East Germany: the Defa Story | |
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| Changing States in East Central Europe | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Russia After the Thaw | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cinema in the Soviet Republics | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Turkish Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Arab World | |
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| The Cinemas of Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Iranian Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Filming the Nation | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Indonesian Cinema | |
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| China After the Revolution | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Popular Cinema in Hong Kong | |
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| Taiwanese New Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Modernization of Japanese Film | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Australian Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Zealand Cinema | |
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| Canadian Cinema/Cin�ma Canadien | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Cinemas in Latin America | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Concepts of Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Resurgence of Cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| List of Picture Sources | |