PART 1 THE MODE OF PRODUCTION •CHAPTER 1 THE EMERGENCE OF THE CINEMA AS AN INSTITUTION •CHAPTER 2 CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA: NARRATION •CHAPTER 3 CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA: STYLE •CHAPTER 4 THE STUDIO SYSTEM •CHAPTER 5 THE STAR SYSTEM
PART 2 GENRE AND THE GENRE SYSTEM •CHAPTER 6 SILENT FILM MELODRAMA •CHAPTER 7 THE MUSICAL •CHAPTER 8 AMERICAN COMEDY •CHAPTER 9 WAR AND CINEMA •CHAPTER 10 FILM NOIR: SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT •CHAPTER 11 THE MAKING OF THE WEST •CHAPTER 12 HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION
PART 3 A POSTWAR HISTORY •CHAPTER 13 HOLLYWOOD AND THE COLD WAR •CHAPTER 14 HOLLYWOOD IN THE AGE OF TELEVISION •CHAPTER 15 THE 1960S: THE COUNTERCULTURE STRIKES BACK •CHAPTER 16 THE FILM SCHOOL GENERATION •CHAPTER 17 INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY •CHAPTER 18 DIGITAL CINEMA