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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
1 Introduction
2 Technology
Making images move
Sound
Colour
Widescreen and stereo sound
Animation and special effects
Digital
Outside the mainstream
Ambiguities of progress
3 Industry
The Hollywood studio system
Europe and Asia
The system crumbles
Outside the studios
Transnational cinema
4 Cinema as art form
Editing and narrative
Genre
Sound cinema
Neo-realism and the new waves
The return of genre cinema
Varieties of modern cinema
5 Cinema and the outer world
Censorship and the public sphere
Politics, revolutions, and wars
Documentary and cinema as record
Cinema and the social imaginary
6 Conclusion: seven epochs of cinema
1900 to 1914: from cinematograph to cinema
1915 to 1929: the heyday of the silents
1930 to 1944: the talkies
1945 to 1959: after World War II
1960 to 1974: the new waves
1975 to 1989: the empire strikes back
1990 to the present
Notes and further reading
General index
Index of film titles
Social media
Film
Documentary Film
Film Music
Advertising
Globalization
The Meaning of Life
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