American cinema/American culture

Ch. 1. Emergence of the Cinema as an Institution

Ch. 2. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narration

Ch. 3. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style

Ch. 4. Studio System

Ch. 5. Star System

Ch. 6. Silent Film Melodrama

Ch. 7. American Comedy

Ch. 8. War Film

Ch. 9. Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night

Ch. 10. Making of the West

Ch. 11. Hollywood and the Cold War

Ch. 12. Hollywood in the Age of Television

Ch. 13. 1960s: the Counterculture Strikes Back

Ch. 14. Film School Generation

Ch. 15. Into the 1990s: Bringing It All Back Home.