In this book the writer looks at the way the nations of Europe have expressed their cultural individuality through film. Acknowledgements, Introduction: Images in Societies, The Coming War, War as an End, War as a Starting Point, Beyond the Front Line, On the Front Line, Images in an Unsettled Europe, Resistance, How the ''Visual'' Changes, An English Model?, Resistance and Films and Politics, A Golden Age, Visiting the Picture Houses, Hollywood and Business and Mythology, Europe and Traditions and Divisions, The Blurred Image of Cities, A Polarized Image, Neorealism or the Complexity of Urban Relationships, Shanty Towns: A Third World?, The End of Cities, Challenging Hollywood, The Watershed of the 1960s, The Loneliness of the Cinema-Goer, Two or Three Things we Know About Them, A Time for Revisions, Television and Cinema and History, The Return of the Repressed, A Woman is a Woman, Conclusion: Moving Pictures: Conception/ Consumption, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index.