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Part 1 Classical Hollywood cinema - the mode of production: theemergence of the cinema as an institution; classical Hollywood cinema -narration; classical Hollywood cinema - style; the studio system; the starsystem. Part 2 Classical Hollywood cinema - the genre system: silent filmmelodrama; American comedy; the war film; film noir - somewhere in the night;the making of the West. Part 3 Classical Hollywood cinema - a post-warhistory: Hollywood and the Cold War; Hollywood in the age of television; the1960s - the counterculture strikes back; the film school generation; into the1990s - bringing it all back home.