Part One: Early Cinema
Chapter 1 - The Invention and Early Years of the Cinema, 1180s -1904
Chapter 2 - The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905 - 1912
Chapter 3 - National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism, and World War 1, 1913 - 1919

Part Two: The Late Silent Era, 1919-1929
Chapter 4 - France in the 1920s
Chapter 5 - Germany in the 1920s
Chapter 6 - Soviet Cinema in the 1920s
Chapter 7 - The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920-1928
Chapter 8 - International Trends of the 1920s

Part Three: The Development of Sound Cinema, 1926-1945
Chapter 9 - The Introduction of Sound
Chapter 10 - The Hollywood Studio System, 1930-1945
Chapter 11 - Other Studio Systems
Chapter 12 - Cinema and the State: The USSR, Germany, and Italy, 1930-1945
Chapter 13 - France: Poetic Realism, The Popular Front, and the Occupation, 1930-1945
Chapter 14 - Leftist, Documentary, and Experimental Cinemas, 1930-1945

Part Four: The Postwar Era, 1945-1960s
Chapter 15 - American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945-1960
Chapter 16 - Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context, 1945-1959
Chapter 17 - Postwar European Cinema: France, Scandinavia, and Britain, 1945-1959
Chapter 18 - Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945-1959
Chapter 19 - Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship
Chapter 20 - New Waves and Young Cinemas, 1958-1967
Chapter 21 - Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Post War Era, 1945-Mid 1960s

Part 5: The Contemporary Cinema Since the 1960s
Chapter 22 - Hollywood's Fall and Rise, 1960-1980
Chapter 23 - Politically Critical Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 24 - Documentary and Experimental Cinema Since the Late 1960s
Chapter 25 - New Cinemas and New Developments: Europe and the USSR Since the 1970s
Chapter 26 - A Developing World: Continental and Subcontinental Cinemas Since 1970
Chapter 27 - Cinema Rising: Pacific Asia and Oceania Since 1970

Part 6: Cinema in the Age of New Media
Chapter 28 - American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy, the 1980s and After
Chapter 29 - Toward a Global Fil Culture
Chapter 30 - Digital Technology and the Cinema