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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 | |