Film history : an introduction / Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell, and Jeff Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. Early cinema -- The invention and early years of the cinema, 1880s-1904 -- The international expansion of the cinema, 1905-1912 -- National cinemas, Hollywood classicism, and World War I, 1913-1919 -- Part Two. The late silent era, 1919-1929 -- France in the 1920s -- Germany in the 1920s -- Soviet cinema in the 1920s -- The late silent era in Hollywood, 1920-1928 -- International trends of the 1920s -- Part Three. The development of sound cinema, 1926-1945 -- The introduction of sound -- The Hollywood studio system, 1930-1945 -- Other studio systems -- Cinema and the state: the USSR, Germany and Italy, 1930-1945 -- France: poetic realism, the popular front, and the occupation, 1930-1945 -- Leftist, documentary, and experimental cinemas, 1930-1945 -- Part Four The postwar era: 1945-1960s -- American cinema in the postwar era, 1945-1960 -- Postwar European cinema: neorealism and its context, 1945-1959 -- Postwar European cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945-1959 -- Postwar cinema beyond the west, 1945-1959 -- Art cinema and the idea of authorship -- New waves and young cinemas, 1958-1967 -- Documentary and experimental cinema in the postwar era, 1945-mid 1960s -- Part Five. The contemporary cinema since the 1960s -- Hollywood's fall and rise: 1960-1980 -- Politically critical cinema of the 1960s and 1970s -- Documentary and experimental film since the late 1960s -- New cinemas and new developments: Europe and the USSR since the 1970s -- A developing world: continental and subcontinental cinemas since 1970 -- Cinema rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania since 1970 -- Part Six. Cinema in the age of new media -- American cinema and the entertainment economy: the 1980s and after -- Toward a global film culture -- Digital technology and the cinema.