A history of narrative film

Origins; International expansion, 1907 - 1918; D.W. Griffith and the development of narrative form; German cinema of the Weimar period 1919 - 1929; Soviet silent cinema and the theory of montage 1917 - 1931; Hollywood in the twenties; The coming of sound and color, 1926 - 1935; The sound film and the American studio system; Europe in the thirties; Orson Welles and the modern sound film; Wartime and postwar cinema: Italy and The United States, 1940 - 1951; Hollywood, 1952 - 1965; The French New Wave and its native context; New cinemas in Britain and the English speaking Commonwealth; European resistance: West; European Renaissance: East; The Former Soviet Union, 1945 - Present; Wind from the East: Japan, India, China; Third World Cinema; Hollywood, 1965v - present.