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Ranging from the earliest days of the cinema to the present, this volume re-establishes class as a fundamental aspect of film history. Featuring film scholars and historians, this volume begins with a review of the history of class in social and political thought, going on to chronicle its disappearance from film and cultural studies. Subsequent essays consider topics ranging from American and Soviet silent film through Chinese and American film in the 50s, to the restructuring of the working class that was a feature of films of the 1980s in both the United States and Britain.