A century of movie posters: from silent to art house

Birth of a cinema: Man with the Movie Camera

October

D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille

German Expressionist Film

Charalie Chaplin

Jazz Singer

Rise and fall of the studios: Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich

Gangster Movies

Walt Disney

1950s horror

Musicals

Casablanca

Citizen Kane

Alfred Hitchcock

Saul Bass

Howard Hawks

Billy wilder

Audrey Hepburn

James Dean

Jean Renoir

Ealing Comedies

Italian watercolour posters

Jane Russell and Rita Hayworth

New wave and blockbusters: Cuban film posters

Polish film posters

Czech film posters

French new wave

Jean-Luc Godard

Joseph Mankiewicz

British films of the 1960s

Peter Strausfeld

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Bunuel

Federico Fellini

James Bond

Clint Eastwood

Michelangelo Antonioni

Stanley Kubrick

2001: Space Odyssey

Beatles

Exhibitionists

US Counter-Cultural Cinema

Midnight Cowboy

Jack Nicholson

Barbarella

Francis Ford Coppola

Martin Scorsese - Woody Allen

Last Tango in Paris

John Cassavetes

Bollywood

Star Wars

Bob Peak

Dawn of the multiplex: Spike Lee

Wings of Desire

Krzysztof Kieslowski

China's Fifth Generation

1980s French Style

Ridley Scott

Julian Schnabel

Jim Jarmusch and Andrzej Klimowski

Coen Brothers

David Lynch

Steven Spielberg

Pedro Almodovar and Juan Gatti

Peter Greenaway

Trainspotting

Quentin Tarantino

Silence of the Lambs

Dogme 95

Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro

Richard Linklater

Harmony Korine

Gus Van Sant

Mike Leigh

Makhmalbafs

Ken Loach

Tim Burton

Bazmark Films

21st-Century Escapism

Selected bibliography

Biographies of selected artists

Index.