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Volume I. Origins to 1928. 1. Setting the Stage. Introduction to Volume I: American Film, Origins to 1928

Writing American Film History / Robert Sklar

2. Origins to 1914

The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter / Charles Musser

From Peep Show to Picture Palace: The Early Exhibition of Motion Pictures / Richard Abel

The Imagined Audience in the Nickelodeon Era / Richard Butsch

D.W. Griffith and the Development of American Narrative Cinema / Charlie Keil

Pink-Slipped: What Happened to the Women in the Silent Film Industry? / Jane M. Gaines

3. 1915-1928. Women and the Silent Screen / Shelley Stamp

The Poor Little Rich Girl: Class and Embodiment in the Films of Mary Pickford / Victoria Sturtevant

African-Americans and Silent Films / Paula J. Massood

Chaplin and Silent Film Comedy / Charles J. Maland

The Devil in the Details: Thomas Ince, Intertitles, and the Institutionalization of Writing in American Cinema / Torey Liepa

Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille: Early Hollywood and the Discourse of Directorial "Genius" / Gaylyn Studlar

In the Trenches, On the Screen: World War I on Film / Andrew Kelly

American Modern: King Vidor's The Crowd / David A. Gerstner

The Star System / Mark Lynn Anderson

Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology / Diane Negra

Unsophisticated Lady : The Vicissitudes of the Maternal Melodrama in Hollywood / Lea Jacobs

Two or Three Things We Thought We Knew about Silent Film Sound / Rick Altman

Synchronized Sound Comes to the Cinema / Paul Young

4. Film and Culture: Summary Essays. Helios and the Apocalypse : Visions of American History in Films by Griffith, Ford, and Stroheim / Nicholas Baer

Self-Reflection in American Silent Film / Charles Warren.

Volume II. 1929 to 1945. 1. Setting the Stage. Introduction to Volume II: American Film, 1929 to 1945

Era of the Moguls : The Studio System / Matthew H. Bernstein

2. 1929-1938. Re-visioning Frank Capra / Vito Zagarrio

As Close to Real Life As Hollywood Ever Gets : Headline Pictures, Topical Movies, Editorial Cinema, and Studio Realism in the 1930 / Richard Maltby

Early American Avant-Garde Cinema / Jan-Christopher Horak

1930s Documentary and Visual Culture / Paula Rabinowitz

Hollywood and Spanish-Speaking Audiences / Lisa Jarvinen

Let 'Em Have It : The Ironic Fate of the 1930s Hollywood Gangster / Ruth Vasey

Landscapes of Fantasy, Gardens of Deceit: The Adventure Film Between Colonialism and Tourism / Hans Jürgen Wulff

The Screwball Comedy / William Rothman

Cinema and the Modern Woman / Veronica Pravadelli

Queering the (New) Deal / David M. Lugowski

3. 1939-1945. The Hollywood A-Production Western / Kevin L. Stoehr

There's No Place Like Home: The Hollywood Folk Musical / Desirée J. Garcia

The Magician: Orson Welles and Film Style / James Naremore

Classical Cel Animation, World War II, and Bambi / Kirsten Moana Thompson

Friz Freleng's Jazz: Animation and Music at Warner Bros. / Krin Gabbard

Mapping Why We Fight: Frank Capra and the US Army Orientation Film in World War II / Charles Wolfe

A Victory "Uneasy with Its Contrasts": The Hollywood Left Fights World War II / Saverio Giovacchini

Hollywood Unions and Hollywood Blacklists / Larry Ceplair

4. Film and Culture: Summary Essays. Hollywood as Historian, 1929-1945 / J.E. Smyth

Taking Stock at War's End: Gender, Genre, and Hollywood Labor in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers / Roy Grundmann.

Volume III. 1946 to 1975. 1. Setting the Stage. Introduction to Volume III: American Film, 1946 to 1975

Natalie Wood: Studio Stardom and Hollywood in Transition / Cynthia Lucia

Truthmovies Are Just Beginning: American Independent Cinema in the Postwar Era / Ted Barron

2. 1946-1955. The Politics of Force of Evil: An Analysis of Abraham Polonsky's Preblacklist Film / Christine Noll Brinckmann

The Gun in the Briefcase: Or, the Inscription of Class in Film Noir / Paul Arthur

The Actors Studio in the Early Cold War / Cynthia Baron and Beckett Warren

Hollywood at the Margins: Samuel Fuller, Phil Karlson, and Joseph H. Lewis / Haden Guest

Authorship and Billy Wilder / Robert Sklar

Laughter and Agony in Minnelli's The Long, Long Trailer: Or, "Isn't This Fun, Honey?" / Joe McElhaney

Got-to-See: Teenpix and the Social Problem Picture

Trends and Cycles / Peter Stanfield

3. 1956-1965. Cold War Thrillers / R. Barton Palmer

American Underground Film / Jared Rapfogel

Adults Only: Low-Budget Exploitation / Eric Schaefer

Black Representation in Independent Cinema: From Civil Rights to Black Power / Alex Lykidis

4. 1966-1975. Cinema Direct and Indirect: American Documentary, 1960-1975 / Charles Warren

The Rise of a Film Generation: Film Culture and Cinephilia / Michael Zryd

Comedy and the Dismantling of the Hollywood Western / Teresa Podlesney

The New Hollywood / Derek Nystrom

The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation / Ed Guerrero

One Big Lousy X: The Cinema of Urban Crisis / Art Simon

Pornography in the Cinema: Last Tango in Paris, Deep Throat, and Boys in the Sand / Linda Williams

Nashville: Putting on the Show: Or, Paradoxes of the "Instant" and the "Moment" / Thomas Elsaesser

Film and Culture: Summary Essays

American Film Criticism / David Sterritt

It's Only a Movie: Reflexivity and Popular Film / Gilberto Perez

Cinema and the Age of Television, 1946-1975 / Michele Hilmes.

Volume IV. 1976 to the Present. 1. Setting the Stage. Introduction to Volume IV: American Film, 1976

Seismic Shifts in the American Film Industry / Thomas Schatz

Independent Film: 1980s to the Present / Geoff King

2. 1976-1988. Reclaiming the Black Family: Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and the "L.A. Rebellion" / Janet K. Cutler

Feminism, Cinema, and Film Criticism / Lucy Fischer

American Avant-Garde Cinema from 1970 / to the Present / Scott MacDonald

A Reintroduction to the American Horror Film / Adam Lowenstein

Charting the Middle Course: The Star Trek Films and 1980s Science Fiction Cinema / Ina Rae Hark

Back to the Future: Hollywood and Reagan's America / Susan Jeffords

Eros and Thanatos: Hollywood and the Teenage Marketplace / Thomas Doherty

3. 1989-1998. Oliver Stone: Hollywood Historian / Robert A. Rosenstone

Black Crossover Cinema / Keith Harris

The Queer 1990s: The Challenge and Failure of Radical Change / Michael Bronski

24/7: Cable Television, Hollywood, and the Narrative Feature Film / Barbara Klinger

Plasmatics and Prisons: The Morph and the Spectacular Emergence of CGI / Kristen Whissel

4. 1999-Present. Mainstream Documentary since 1999 / Patricia Aufderheide

Truthiness Is Stranger than Fictition: The "New Biopic" / Michael Sicinski

The Coen Brothers and the Post-Hollywood Studio Era / William Luhr

Asia as Global Hollywood Commodity / Kenneth Chan

The Blockbuster Superhero / Bart Beaty

Computer Animation: Margins to Mainstream / Paul Wells

Limited Engagement: The Iraq War on Film / Susan L. Carruthers

American Film After 9/11 / Stephen Prince

5. Film and Culture: Summary Essays. The Biggest Independent Pictures Ever Made: Industrial Reflexivity Today / J.D. Connor

The End of Cinema (As We Know It): American Movies and Movie Business, 1995-2009 / Jon Lewis.

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v. 2. 1929 to 1945

v. 3. 1946 to 1975

v. 4. 1976 to the present.

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