Table of Contents: “…Prehistory of the screenplay -- Copyright law, theatre, and early film writing, 1904-1912 -- Outlines and scenarios, 1904-1917 -- The continuity script, 1912-1929 -- The silent film script in Europe -- The coming of sound -- The Hollywood sound screenplay to 1948 -- Narrative fiction and European screenwriting, 1948-1960 -- The master-scene screenplay and the "New Hollywood" -- The contemporary screenplay and the screenwriting manual -- Screenwriting today and tomorrow -- Conclusion.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : modernity, race, and visibility -- Time, racial otherness, and digressions in silent films of the 1920s -- Female spectacle in the display case of the roaring Twenties -- Racing for modernity : from black jazz to white Gypsy folklore -- The gypsy "problem" : law and spatial assimilation -- The Spanish solution : the folklorica and the fuehrer -- Recycling folkloricas : a queer Spain.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Hemingway and D'Annunzio -- The hidden godfather : plenitude and absence in Coppola's trilogy -- The representation of Italian Americans in American cinema : from the silent film to The Godfather.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Culture and nationhood -- Vaudeville : template for the century -- Outsider art : American popular song -- Silent film : the private experience -- Censorship, class, and culture -- Isadora Duncan and the spirit of modernism -- Cultural communities and cultural consequences -- Modern art meets modern marketing : the Armory Show -- Unambiguous ambition : Eugene O'Neill and the Provincetown Players -- The politics of culture : the singing army -- Epilogue : broadcasting begins.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The modernist soundscape: ocularcentrism and auditory technologies -- Music and the prosody of voice: Dorothy Richardson and the transformation from silent film to the talkie -- Recording the soundscape: Virginia Woolf's onomatopoeia and the phonograph -- Turning up the volume of inner speech: headphones and James Joyce's interior monologue -- Inner speech as a gramophone record: Jean Rhys's Bohemian voice and popular music -- Turning words into sounds: Samuel Beckett's repetition and the tape recorder.…”
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Table of Contents: “…1. Silent film comedy -- 2. Early sound film comedy -- 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by André Stufkens -- Foreword / by Bill Nichols -- Introduction -- Part I. Ivens and the silent film avant-garde 1926-1929 ; The radicalisation of the poet 1929-1936 ; Anti-fascist solidarity documentary ; Projects of the forties -- Part II. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Roxy and silent film exhibition (1908-1922). A new art for a new art form: Roxy and the development of motion picture exhibition (1908-1913) -- Broadway melody: Roxy, Riesenfeld, and the deluxe theater movement (1913-1917) -- The movie house as recruiting center: Roxy, World War I documentaries, and the engineering of consent (1917-1918) -- "The man who gave the movies a college education": Roxy, Rapee, and motion pictures at the Capitol Theatre (1919-1922) -- Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1936). …”
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Table of Contents: “…Motion pictures: 1896-1918 -- The rise of silent film: 1917-1930 -- The first golden age: 1927-1940 -- Japanese cinema during wartime -- Film production in the colonies and occupied lands -- Japanese cinema under American occupation: 1945-1952 -- Toward a second golden age: 1952-1960 -- Upheaval amid steady decline: 1961-1970 -- Decline and torpor: 1971-1980 -- The collapse of the studio system: 1981-1990 -- The indies start to flourish: 1991-2000 -- Within a production bubble: 2001-2011.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare in absentia: the genealogy of an obsession -- Rescripting moral criticism: Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin Shu, and Lao She -- Part III. Locality at work. Silent film and early theater: performing womanhood and cosmopolitanism -- Site-specific readings: Confucian temple, labor camp, and Soviet-Chinese theater -- Part IV. …”

Table of Contents: “…Motion pictures: 1896-1918 -- The rise of silent film: 1917-1930 -- The first golden age: 1927-1940 -- Japanese cinema during wartime -- Film production in the colonies and occupied lands -- Japanese cinema under American occupation: 1945-1952 -- Toward a second golden age: 1952-1960 -- Upheaval amidst steady decline: 1961-1970 -- Decline and torpor: 1971-1980 -- The collapse of the studio system: 1981-1990 -- The indies start to flourish: 1991-2000 -- Within a production bubble: 2001-2011.…”

Table of Contents: “…Soviet Emancipation and Modernization: The "Secondhand Time" -- Imperial politics and the women's question in the beginning of the 20th century (the Volga-Ural region, Muslim women and beyond) -- Revolutions of 1917 and the Bolshevik Reforms of the status of woman -- Informing change: "Total Hopelessness" of the Past and the "Bright Future" of the "Woman of the East" in Soviet Pamphlets -- Everyday Work for Emancipation of Natsionalka :The VTsIK Commission -- Managing the Change -- Documenting and Visualizing Change in Soviet Silent Films -- Bolshevik emancipation of natsionalka between "East" and "West" -- Soviet Politics of Emancipation in Post-Soviet Present.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Dark Genre and Its Paradoxes; The Silent and Classical Hollywood Eras; Shadow-Souls and Strange Adventures: Horror and the Supernatural in European Silent Film; Before Sound: Universal, Silent Cinema, and the Last of the Horror-Spectaculars; Children of the Night; The Horrors of War; The Modern Era; Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Film; Dread, Taboo, and The Thing: Toward a Social Theory of the Horror Film; Toward an Aesthetics of Cinematic Horror; Scraping Bottom: Splatter and the Herschell Gordon Lewis Oeuvre; Mondo Horror: Carnivalizing the Taboo.…”
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