Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors General Introduction by Michael Temple and Michael Witt General Further Reading PART ONE: 1890-1930 Introduction: Hello Cinema! Michael Temple and Michael Witt 1. PEOPLE: The Men And Women Who Made French Cinema Richard Abel 2. BUSINESS: A Re-Examination of Key Milestones in the Development of the Industry Michelle Millar 3. TECHNOLOGY: The Drive to Mechanisation and Digitisation Alison McMahan 4. FORMS: The Shifting Boundaries of Art and Industry Ian Christie 5. REPRESENTATIONS: Mutability and Fixity in Early French Cinema Vicki Callahan 6. SPECTATORS: The Cinemising Process: Filmgoing in the Silent Era Elizabeth Ezra 7. DEBATES: Thinking About Cinema: First Waves Monica Dall'Asta Further Reading 1890-1930 PART TWO: 1930-1960 Introduction: Classicism and Conflict Michael Temple and Michael Witt 8.
PEOPLE: Migration and Exile in the Classical Period Alastair Phillips 9. BUSINESS: Anarchy and Order in the Classic Cinema Industry Colin Crisp 10. TECHNOLOGY: Imported Technologies in French Film-Making Charles O'Brien 11. FORMS: The Art of Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Classical French Cinema Ginette Vincendeau 12. REPRESENTATIONS: The Geography and Topography of French Cinema Keith Reader 13. SPECTATORS: The Golden Age of Spectatorship Gregory Sims 14. DEBATES: Critical Debate and the Construction of Society Christopher Faulkner Further Reading 1930-1960 PART THREE: 1960-2004 Introduction: A New World Michael Temple and Michael Wit 15. PEOPLE: The Other Auteurs: Producers, Cinematographers, and Scriptwriters Alison Smith 16.
BUSINESS: A Certain Idea of the Film Industry Laurent Creton and Anne Jauml;ckel 17. TECHNOLOGY: From Images of the World to the World of Images Laurent Jullier and Lucy Mazdon 18. FORMS: For it is the Critical Faculty that Invents Fresh Forms Nicole Brenez 19. REPRESENTATIONS: Parisian Images and National Transformations Naomi Greene 20. SPECTATORS: The Decline, Fall, and Rebirth in Cinemagoing Sue Harris 21. DEBATES: The Exercise has been Useful, Monsieur Daney James Williams Further Reading 1960-2004 Selected On-Line Resources Further Reading on Films and Film People List of Illustrations Index.