Sixth edition. Table of Contents. Part One: Early Cinema 1 The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1880s-1904 2 The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905-1912 3 National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism, and World War I, 1913-1919 Part Two: The Late Silent Era, 1919-1929 4 France in the 1920s 5 Germany in the 1920s 6 Soviet Cinema in the 1920s 7 The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920-1928 8 International Trends of the 1920s Part Three: The Development of Sound Cinema, 1926-1945 9 The Introduction of Sound 10 The Hollywood Studio System, 1930-1945 11 Other Studio Systems 12 Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945 13 France: Poetic Realism, The Popular Front, and the Occupation, 1930-1945 14 Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinemas, 1930-1945 Part Four: The Postwar Era, 1945-1960s 15 American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945-1960 16 Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945-1959 17 Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945-1959 18 Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945-1959 19 Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship 20 New Waves and Young Cinemas, 1958-1967 21 Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Post War Era, 1945-Mid 1960s Part 5: The Contemporary Cinema Since the 1960s 22 Hollywood's Fall and Rise, 1960-1980 23 Politically Critical Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s 24 Documentary and Experimental Cinema Since the Late 1960s 25 New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970s 26 A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas Since 1970 27 Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania Since 1970 Part 6: Cinema in the Age of New Media 28 American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy, the 1980s and After 29 Toward a Global Film Culture 30 Digital Technology and the Cinema
