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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Silent Cinema 1895-1927 | |
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| The Invention and Innovation of the Motion Pictures | |
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| Who Went to See Early Movies in the USA? | |
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| The Triumph of Hollywood | |
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| Government Control of What Audiences Saw - The Battle on Film Censorship in Germany and the USA | |
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| Hollywood Establishes the Classic Narrative Style | |
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| The Acceptance of the Classical Hollywood Filmmaking Style | |
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| Influential Alternatives to Hollywood: European Cinema | |
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| Carl Dreyer - A Danish Individualist | |
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| Experiments in Filmmaking: The USSR | |
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| Evaluation in Movie History - The Case of Odessa Steps | |
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| The Hollywood Studio Era 1928-1950 | |
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| The Coming of Sound & the Studio System | |
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| The Coming of Sound to Europe - The Triumph of National Film Production in Holland | |
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| The First Golden Age of Hollywood Movie Making | |
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| How was the Moviegoer Affected by the Movies? - Reconstructing the Meaning of Movies and Movie Going with the Help of Oral History | |
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| European Alternatives to Hollywood: France, Britain, Germany and Italy | |
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| What Did the European Moviegoer Really Like? - Reconstructing the taste of the Moviegoer with the Help of Film Programming and Statistics | |
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| The Television Era 1951-1975 | |
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| Television, Wide-Screen and Colour | |
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| Film Societies as Alternative Spaces for Movie Exhibition | |
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| A Transformation of Hollywood Movie-Making | |
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| A Critic who Changed the Status of Hollywood Movies | |
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| The European Art Cinema Alternative | |
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| Art Movie Theaters in the USA | |
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| Alternative Film Industries - The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, South America, Australia and Japan | |
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| The Importance of Film Festivals | |
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| The Video to Digital Era 1975-2010 | |
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| Contemporary World Cinema History - 1975 and Beyond | |
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| Film Historical Research in the Digital Age | |
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| Hollywood Thrives | |
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| The Reception of James Cameron's Avatar | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |