Origins -- International expansion, 1907-1918 -- D. W. Griffith and the consummation of narrative form -- German cinema of the Weimar period, 1919-1929 -- Soviet silent cinema and the theory of Montage, 1917-1931 -- Hollywood in the twenties -- Coming of sound and color, 1926-1935 -- Sound film and the American studio system -- Europe in the thirties -- Orson Welles and the modern sound film -- Wartime and postwar cinema: Italy and America, 1940-1951 -- Hollywood, 1952-1965 -- French new wave and its native context -- New cinemas in Britain and the English-speaking Commonwealth -- European renaissance: West ; East -- Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China -- Seventies and the eighties: colonies of the mind and heart

1. Motion Pictures -- History