Introduction |
PART ONE: THE MODE OF PRODUCTION |
1. The Emergence of the Cinema as an Institution |
2. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narration |
3. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style |
4. The Studio System |
5. The Star System |
PART TWO: GENRE AND THE GENRE SYSTEM |
6. Silent Film Melodrama |
7. The Musical |
8. American Comedy |
9. War and Cinema |
10. Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night |
11. The Making of the West |
PART THREE: A POSTWAR HISTORY |
12. Hollywood and the Cold War |
13. Hollywood in the Age of Television |
14. The 1960's: The Counterculture Strikes Back |
15. The Film School Generation |
16. Into the Twenty-First Century |
Glossary of Terms |
Index |