Table of Contents

The Pre-history and Invention of the Cinema ; Early Cinema: Art and Commerce ; The Silents ; Revolution, art and the avant-garde ; New Technologies ; The Great Studios ; Directors and Authorship ; Special Effects ; Documentaries ; Animation ; Stars ; Genre ; The Coming of Television ; Live Television ; News ; Television Drama ; Entertainment ; Art Cinema ; Cinema in the Third World ; Public and Private Broadcasting ; Video ; Criticism ; TV Today Around the World ; The Cinema Survives ; Britain