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 - France in the 1920s - Germany in the 1920s - Soviet cinema in the 1920s - The late silent era in …
It comprises seven main sections: Hollywood Cinema and Beyond; The Star System; Technologies; World Cinemas; Genre; Authorship and Cinema; and Developments in Theory,
