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