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.
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