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The American film industry
- Title
- The American film industry / edited by Tino Balio.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1985.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1993.5.U6 A87 1985 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Balio, Tino.
- Description
- xi, 664 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- A systematic history of the American movie industry, consisting of previously published and especially commissioned essays on important events, trends, people, developments, products, and influences.
- Upon its original publication in 1976, The American Film Industry was welcomed by film students, scholars, and fans as the first systematic and unified history of the American movie industry. Now this indispensable anthology has been expanded and revised to include a fresh introductory overview by editor Tino Balio and ten new chapters -- written specifically for this edition -- that explore such topics as the growth of exhibition as big business, the mode of production for feature films, the star as market strategy, and the changing economics and structure of contemporary entertainment companies. The result is a unique collection of essays, more comprehensive and current than ever, that reveals how the American movie industry really worked in a century of constant change -- from kinetoscopes and the coming of sound to the star system, 1950's blacklisting, and today's corporate empires.--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 633-643.
- Contents
- Part 1. A novelty spawns small businesses, 1894-1908. The machine / A.R. Fulton -- The history of the kinetoscope / Gordon Hendricks -- The movies in vaudeville: historical context of the movies as popular entertainment / Robert C. Allen -- Nickelodeon theaters, 1905-1914: building an audience for the movies / Russell Merritt ; Part 2. Struggles for control, 1908-1930. The Motion Picture Patents Company: a reevaluation / Robert Anderson -- Stars in business: the founding of United Artists / Tino Balio -- Blueprints for feature films: Hollywood's continuity scripts / Janet Staiger -- The motion picture industry as a basis for bond financing / Halsey, Stuart & Co. -- U.S. film exhibition: the formation of a big business / Douglas Gomery -- The coming of sound: technological change in the American film industry / Douglas Gomery ; Part 3. A mature oligopoly, 1930-1948. Economic control of the motion picture industry / Mae D. Huettig -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Fortune -- Loew's, Inc. / Fortune -- The star as market strategy: Bette Davis in another light / Cathy Klaprat -- Self-regulation in operation / Ruth A. Inglis ; Part 4. Retrenchment, reappraisal, and reorganization, 1948-. United States versus Hollywood: the case study of an antitrust suit / Ernest Borneman -- Hollywood's international market / Thomas H. Guback -- HUAC: the mass hearings / John Cogley -- Censorship: from The miracle to Deep throat / Richard S. Randall -- The Paramount decrees reconsidered / Michael Conant -- "What's happening to our pix biz?" from Warner Bros. to Warner Communications Inc. / Robert Gustafson -- Supplement: Warner Communications' international operations -- The changing economics of entertainment / David J. Londoner.
- ISBN
- 0299098745
- 9780299098742
- 0299098702
- 9780299098704
- LCCN
- 84040143
- OCLC
- ocm11233906
- 11233906
- SCSB-1175649
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library