| Introduction |
| PART ONE: THE MODE OF PRODUCTION |
| 1. The Emergence of the Cinema as an Institution |
| 2. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narration |
| 3. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style |
| 4. The Studio System |
| 5. The Star System |
| PART TWO: GENRE AND THE GENRE SYSTEM |
| 6. Silent Film Melodrama |
| 7. The Musical |
| 8. American Comedy |
| 9. War and Cinema |
| 10. Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night |
| 11. The Making of the West |
| PART THREE: A POSTWAR HISTORY |
| 12. Hollywood and the Cold War |
| 13. Hollywood in the Age of Television |
| 14. The 1960's: The Counterculture Strikes Back |
| 15. The Film School Generation |
| 16. Into the Twenty-First Century |
| Glossary of Terms |
| Index |