The american cinema

Incluye contents

1. Perspective on the american cinema -- 2. Hale's tours - ultrarealism in the -- 3. The edison motion pictures - early days -- 4. The d. w. griffith years -- 5. Lilian gish: reflections -- 6. The schematized vision of josef von sternberg: "blonde venus" -- 7. The preservation of america's film heritage -- 8. Four great comedians of the silent cinema -- 9. Frank capra: the ideal and the real -- 10. Griffith to eisenstein and back - soviet reciprocity -- 11. Documentary film and government -- 12. Film and reality -- 13. Father of the american documentary -- 14. The american experimental film -- 15. Our space in our time: the new american cinema -- 16. The gangster film -- 17. The studio years -- 18. Rouben mamoulian: the artistic innovator -- 19. Hollywood's political blacklist -- 20. The newsreel on the american screens -- 21. postwar cinema - the italian war bride -- 22. The western -- 23. The motion picture in u.s. education -- 24. The new wave washes the american screen -- 25. The state of cinema criticism in the u.s. -- 26. Don siegel: speaking frankly -- 27. U.s. contemporary cinema scene.