Bibliography: p. 1233-1236.
Includes index.

CONTENTS:

Beginnings -- The rise of the American industry -- The screen’s first master -- Germany in the twenties : shadows, poverty and prostitutes -- The U.S.S.R. : montage and message -- The United Artists -- Hollywood in the twenties : the studios -- The twenties : Britain and France -- Talkies! -- Japan: the first masters -- Sex, crime and booze : Warner Bros. in the thirties -- Hollywood before the code -- Film in the Third Reich -- Frank Capra, the name above the title -- Clowns and Korda -- Russia and France : argument and art -- Hollywood’s golden age : RKO, Paramount and 20th-Century Fox -- Hollywood’s golden age : Universal, Warner and M-G-M -- Hollywood’s golden age : Columbia and United Artists -- Intermission -- Kane and other citizens -- The British at war -- Hollywood’s war effort -- Italy : the tradition of realism -- French cinema during occupation and readjustment -- The M-G-M musical -- Postwar Hollywood : the directors in their brave new world -- Postwar Hollywood : the studios -- Production in austerity Britain -- Luis Buñuel and his followers -- A picture of India : the films of Satyajit Ray -- Hollywood in the age of television : the directors -- Hollywood in the age of television : the decline of the studios -- Ingmar Bergman : the quest for understanding -- The Japanese masters -- France : before and after the nouvelle vague -- Occasional bulletins from the Eastern Bloc -- Italy : traditions maintained and betrayed -- British cinema : a matter of collusion -- Movies around the world -- In Hollywood the director is king -- The movie brats.