Cinema, society, and science

Early cinema

Film as art and industry

The global spread of film

Hollywood in the 1920s

The cinemas of Europe

Soviet cinema

The transition to sound

Hollywood genres

Meeting Hollywood's challenge

Documentary, propaganda, and politics

Film and World War II

Italian neorealism

Hollywood's struggles

Art cinema of Europe and Asia

Hollywood in the 1950s

The French new wave

Cinema of liberation

The new documentary

American film : turmoil and transformation

European films of the 1960s and 1970s

Hollywood recovery

The cinematic avant-garde

The global advance of cinema

English-language art cinema

New European film

World cinema

American cinema : special effects and beyond.