A short history of the movies /
Gerald Mast, Bruce F. Kawin.
- Abridged eleventh edition
- Boston : Pearson, c2012.
- xiv, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Preface 1. Introductory assumptions 2. Birth 3. Film narrative, commercial expansion 4. Griffith 5. Mack Sennett and the Chaplin shorts 6. Movie czars and movie stars 7. The German golden age 8. Soviet montage 9. Sound 10. France between the wars 11. The American studio years: 1930-1945 12. Hollywood in transition: 1946-1965 13. Neorealism, the New Wave, and what followed 14. National cinemas 1: 1945- 15. Hollywood renaissance: 1964-1976 16. National cinemas 2: 1968- 17. The return of the myths: 1977- - 18. Conglomerates and video: 1975- 19. Digital cinema: 1999-