The American film industry /
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
1976.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: A novelty spawns small businesses, 1894-1908
- The machine / A.R. Fulton
- The history of the kinetoscope / Gordon Hendricks
- "No magic, no mystery, no sleight of hand" / George Pratt
- Nickelodeon theaters 1905-1914: building an audience for the movies / Russell Merritt
- Close-ups / Norma Talmadge
- Part II: Struggles for control, 1908-1930
- The decay of the Motion Picture Patents Company / Jeanne Thomas Allen
- Stars in business: the founding of United Artists / Tino Balio
- The business of motion pictures / Carl Laemmle
- The motion picture industry as a basis for bond financing / Halsey, Stuart & Co.
- The coming of the talkies: invention, innovation, and diffusion / J. Douglas Gomery
- Part III: A Mature Oligopoly, 1930-1948
- The motion picture industry today / Mae D. Huettig
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Fortune
- Loew's, Inc. / Fortune
- The Hays office / Fortune
- Part IV: Retrenchment, Reappraisal, and Reorganization, 1948-
- United States versus Hollywood: the case study of an antitrust suit / Ernest Borneman
- The comeback of the movies / Freeman Lincoln
- Hollywood's international market / Thomas H. Guback
- The mass hearings / John Cogley
- Censorship: from The miracle to Deep throat / Richard S. Randall
- Why the movie majors are major / David Gordon.