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The American film industry / edited by Tino Balio.
LIBRA PN1993.5.U6 A87
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--United States--History.
- Motion picture industry.
- United States.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 499 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Madison, Wisconsin] : The University of Wisconsin Press, [1976]
- Summary:
- 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 indispensible anthology has been expanded and revised to include a fresh introductory overview by editor Tino Balio and ten new chapters 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, 1950s blacklisting, and today's corporate empires.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Printings 1976, 1977."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-481) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 029907000X :
- OCLC:
- 2283247
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