Books in the Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series

Includes essays that examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined 1990s.

Includes essays that explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to 'cinema.'

Includes essays that explore the rapid developments of the 1910s that began with D W Griffith's unrivaled one-reelers.