Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 2004-4 No 51-4, 2004/4 - pagesPages 7 to 9IntroductionBy Pascal OryPages 10 to 20A History of Film Technology: The Example of Sound before “Talkies”By Martin BarnierPages 21 to 38Narrative Cinema and Popular Literary Culture: The Beginning of a Dual Culture (1908 – 1928)By Alain CarouPages 39 to 57The Relationship between Victor Hugo's Works and Their AdaptationsBy Delphine GleizesPages 58 to 77Nationalist Cinema: The Opening of National Schools and the Inception of Patriotic Cinema (1910 – 1930)By Christophe GauthierPages 78 to 97How Films Produced in the USA by French Directors Were Perceived in France in the Days of Blum-ByrnesBy Laurent Le ForestierPages 98 to 114Going to the Movies, Getting Closer to the PeopleBy Jenny LefcourtPages 115 to 134Catholics, Cinema, and Conquering the Masses: The Turning Point at the End of the 1920sBy Dimitri VezyroglouPages 135 to 151Educational Cinema and Colonial Propaganda in Paris in the Early 1930sBy Béatrice de PastrePages 152 to 161Rethinking the 20th Century through CinemaBy Myriam TsikounasPages 162 to 176ReviewsBy Myriam Juan