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" The American film industry / "
edited by Tino Balio
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BL
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626535
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The American film industry /\ edited by Tino Balio
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| Edition Statement
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Revised edition
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xi, 664 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0299098745
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: 9780299098742
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: 0299098702
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: 9780299098704
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| Notes
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Includes indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-643)
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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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
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Motion picture industry-- United States-- History
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Cinéma - Industrie - États-Unis - Histoire
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384/.8/0973
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PN1993.5.U6A87 1985
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Balio, Tino
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