Dixon Wheeler Winston, Foster Gwendolyn Audrey. A short history of film

Rutgers University Press, 2008. - 480p.Timeline 1832–2007
The Invention of the Movies
The Birth of an American Industry
World Cinema: The Silent Era
The Hollywood Studio System in the 1930s and 1940s
International Cinema through World War II
Postwar Challenges to the Movies
World Cinema in the 1950s
The 1960s Explosion
World Cinema 1970 to the Present
The New Hollywood
Glossary of Film Terms