General introduction : Rethinking French cinema / Michael Temple and Michael Witt
Part one : 1890-1930. Introduction : Hello cinema! / Michael Temple and Michael Witt ; People : the men and women who made French cinema / Richard Abel ; Business : a re-examination of key milestones in the development of the industry / Michelle Millar ; Technology : the drive to mechanisation and digitisation / Alison McMahan ; Forms : the shifting boundaries of art and industry / Ian Christie ; Representations : mutability and fixity in early French cinema / Vicki Callahan ; Spectators : the cinemising process : filmgoing in the silent era / Elizabeth Ezra ; Debates : thinking about cinema : first waves / Monica Dall'Asta
Selected further reading : 1890-1930
Part two : 1930-60. Introduction : Classicism and conflict / Michael Temple and Michael Witt ; People : migration and exile in the classical period / Alastair Phillips ; Business : anarchy and order in the classic cinema industry / Colin Crisp ; Technology : imported technologies in French film-making / Charles O'Brien ; Forms : the art of spectacle : the aesthetics of classical French cinema / Ginette Vincendeau ; Representations : the geography and topography of French cinema / Keith Reader ; Spectators : the golden age of spectatorship / Gregory Sims ; Debates : critical debate and the construction of society / Christopher Faulkner ; Selected further reading : 1930-60
Part three : 1960-2004. Introduction : A new world / Michael Temple and Michael Witt ; People : the other auteurs : producers, cinematographers and scriptwriters / Alison Smith ; Business : a certain idea of the film industry / Laurent Creton and Anne Jäckel ; Technology : from images of the world to the world of images / Laurent Jullier and Lucy Mazdon ; Forms : 'For it is the critical faculty that invents fresh forms' / Nicole Brenez ; Representations : Parisian images and national transformations / Naomi Greene
Spectators : the decline, fall and rebirth in cinemagoing / Sue Harris
Debates : the exercise was beneficial, Monsieur Daney / James S. Williams ; Selected further reading : 1960-2004.
