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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Invention of Motion Pictures: 1895-1910 | |
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| Early Narratives and the Nickelodeons | |
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| D. W. Griffith and Cinematic Language: 1910-1919 | |
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| UFA and the German Studio System: 1919-1925 | |
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| Critical Essay: "Caligari" | |
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| The Impact of D. W. Griffith on Soviet Montage: 1919-1925 | |
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| The French Avant-Garde Tradition and Surrealism | |
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| Hollywood Silent Films in the Jazz Age: 1919-1929 | |
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| Hollywood and the Sound Films of the 1930s | |
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| French Cinema of the 1930s | |
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| Critical Essay: "The Evolution of the Language of Cinema" | |
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| The Hollywood Golden Years: 1930-1945 | |
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| Italian Neorealist Cinema: 1945-1954 | |
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| Critical Essay: "Some Ideas on the Cinema" | |
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| Hollywood at War and Postwar Paranoia: 1940-1954 | |
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| Postwar Japanese Cinema: 1950-1990 | |
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| Hollywood in Transition and Decline: 1955-1962 | |
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| Symbolist Traditions in the Cinema: 1950s-1970s | |
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| The French New Wave, Part One: 1957-1968 | |
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| The French New Wave, Part Two: 1959-1980 | |
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| Critical Essay: "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad: The Narration of Narration" | |
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| Postwar British New Cinema: 1956-1972 | |
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| The Italian Cinema of Fellini and Antonioni | |
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| Hollywood Revival and the Anti-Myth Era: 1964-1976 | |
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| Critical Essay: "Blow-Up, Swinging London, and the Film Generation" | |
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| New Italian Cinema of Pasolini and Bertolucci | |
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| New German Cinema | |
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| American Auteurs: Allen, Altman and Coppola | |
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| Revisiting Genre Films in the 1980s and 1990s | |
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| Third Cinema and Post-Colonial Narratives in Africa, Latin America and Asia | |
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| Critical Essay: "From a Hybrid Place" | |
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| Revisioning History: Contesting Colonialism | |
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| Contemporary Canadian Filmmakers: 1987-2007 | |
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| Cultural Politics: Contemporary Inquiries into a "War on Terrorism" | |
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| Index | |