- A Note on Film Titles and Dates
- Introduction
- I. French Cinema Dominates the World Market
- 1. The Cinema before Cinema
- 2. An Industry Begins
- 3. Growth and Diversification
- II. The Golden Age of the Silent Film
- 4. Decline and Mutation
- 5. The Mental and the Physical
- 6. The Commercial and the Esoteric
- III. The Golden Age of the Sound Cinema
- 7. An Unexpected Upheaval
- 8. Art and Entertainment in the Sound Film
- 9. Politics, Poetics, and the Cinema
- IV. A New Kind of Cinema
- 10. War and Occupation
- 11. Liberation—Change and Continuity
- 12. An Alternative Film Culture
- V. The Nouvelle Vague and After
- 13. Fourth Wave
- 14. Filmmaking at the Margins
- 15. Winds of Change
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index


Republic of Images
A History of French Filmmaking
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Publication Date: 03/01/1992