Includes Index

1. Beginnings
2. Griffith and his Contemporaries: 1908-1920
3. American Cinema in the 1920s
4. European Cinema in the 1920s
5. The Hollywood Studio System: 1925-1955
6. American Cinema in the 1940s
7. European Cinema in the 1930s
8. American Cinema in the 1940s
9. European Cinema in the 1940s
10. American Cinema in the 1950s
11. International Cinemas in the 1950s
12. American Cinemas in the 1960s
13. International Cinema in the 1960s
14. American Cinema in the 1970s
15. International Cinema in the 1970s
16. American Cinema in the 1980s
17. International Cinema in the 1980s
18. American Cinema in the 1990s
19. International Cinema in the 1990s
20. American Cinema since 2000
21. International Cinema since 2000
Glossary
Photo Credits
Index