A history of film

Birth and childhood of a new art 1895-1914 Rise of the American film 1914-1919 Great German silents 1919-1925 Art and dialectic in the Soviet film 1925-1929 Hollywood in the twenties 1919-1929 Sound comes to America 1927-1935 Golden age of French cinema 1935-1939 Hollywood in the thirties 1929-1939 Wartime and postwar Hollywood 1940-1952 - Italian Neorealism 1945-1952 British film after the war 1945-1963 Asian film 1951- Hollywood in transition 1952-1962 Film of the auteur, the French new wave, and after 1954-

New Italians and newer Italians 1960-

Eastern European cinema 1954-

American reevaluation and reemergence 1963-1980

British film 1963-

Third-world cinema and recent national movements 1959-

Here and now: United States 1975-.