Includes bibliographical references (pages 767-784) and index

Origins and survival / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Early cinema / Roberta Pearson -- Transitional cinema / Roberta Pearson -- The Hollywood studio system / Douglas Gomery -- The world-wide spread of cinema / Ruth Vasey -- The First World War and the crisis in Europe / William Uricchio -- Tricks and animation / Donald Crafton -- Comedy / David Robinson -- Documentary / Charles Musser -- Cinema and the avant-garde / A.L. Rees -- Serials / Ben Singer -- French silent cinema / Richard Abel -- Italy: spectacle and melodrama / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- British cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock / John Hawkridge -- Germany: the Weimar years / Thomas Elsaesser -- The Scandinavian style / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Pre-revolutionary Russia / Yuri Tsivian -- The Soviet Union and the Russian émigrés / Natalia Nussinova -- Yiddish cinema in Europe / Marek & Małgorzata Hendrykowski -- Japan: before the great Kanto earthquake / Hiroshi Komatsu -- Music and the silent film / Martin Marks -- The heyday of the silents / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- The introduction of sound / Karel Dibbets -- Hollywood: the triumph of the studio system / Thomas Schatz -- Censorship and self-regulation / Richard Maltby -- The sound of music / Martin Marks -- Technology and innovation / John Belton -- Animation / William Moritz -- Cinema and genre / Rick Altman -- The western / Edward Buscombe -- The musical / Rick Altman -- Crime movies / Phil Hardy -- The fantastic / Vivian Sobchack -- Documentary / Charles Musser -- Socialism, fascism, and democracy / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- The popular art of French cinema / Ginette Vincendeau -- Italy from fascism to neo-realism / Morando Morandini -- Britain at the end of empire / Antonia Lant -- Germany: Nazism and after / Eric Rentschler -- East Central Europe before the Second World War / Małgorzata Hendrykowska -- Soviet film under Stalin / Peter Kenez -- Indian cinema: origins to independence / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- China before 1949 / Chris Berry -- The classical cinema in Japan / Hiroshi Komatsu -- The emergence of Australian film / Bill Routt --Cinema in Latin America / Michael Chanan -- After the war / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- Transformation of the Hollywood system / Douglas Gomery -- Independents and mavericks / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- Television and the film industry / Michèle Hilmes -- The new Hollywood / Douglas Gomery -- New technologies / John Belton -- Sex and sensation / Linda Williams -- The black presence in American cinema / Jim Pines -- Exploitation and the mainstream / Kim Newman -- Dreams and nightmares in the Hollywood blockbuster / Joseph Sartelle -- Cinema verité and the new documentary / Charles Musser -- Avant-garde film: the second wave / A.L. Rees -- Animation in the post-industrial era / William Moritz -- Modern film music / Royal Brown -- Art cinema / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- New directions in French cinema / Peter Graham -- Italy: auteurs and after / Morando Morandini -- Spain after Franco / Marsha Kinder -- British cinema: the search for identity / Duncan Petrie -- The new German cinema / Anton Kaes -- East Germany: the DEFA story / Hans-Michael Bock -- Changing states in East Central Europe / Marek Hendrykowski -- Russia after the thaw / Vida Johnson -- Cinema in the Soviet Republics / Jean Radvanyi -- Turkish cinema / Yusuf Kaplan -- The Arab world / Roy Armes -- The cinemas of sub-Saharan Africa / P. Vincent Magombe -- Iranian cinema / Hamid Naficy -- India: filming the nation / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Indonesian cinema / David Hanan -- China after the revolution / Esther Yau -- Popular cinema in Hong Kong / Li Cheuk-to -- Taiwanese new cinema / June Yip -- The modernization of Japanese film / Hiroshi Komatsu -- New Australian cinema / Stephen Crofts -- New Zealand cinema / Bill Routt -- Canadian cinema = Cinéma Canadien / Jill McGreal -- New cinemas in Latin America / Michael Chanan -- New concepts of cinema / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- The resurgence of cinema / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

"This book traces the history of the twentieth-century's most enduringly popular form of entertainment. Covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact, the book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the Avant-Garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong. An international team of distinguished film historians tells the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel; other chapters outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world - the varied and distinctive filmic traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood. A unique aspect of the book are the special inset features on the film-makers and personalities - Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman - who have had an enduring impact in popular memory and cinematic lore. With over 280 illustrations, a full bibliography, and an extensive index, this is the buff's ultimate guide to cinema worldwide."--Jacket

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