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100	1		_aBalio, Tino.
245	1	4	_aThe American Film Industry.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aMadison : _bUniversity of Wisconsin Press, _c1985.
264		4	_c©1985.
300			_a1 online resource (677 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: A Novelty Spawns Small Businesses, 1894-1908 -- 1. The Machine -- 2. The History of the Kinetoscope -- 3. The Movies in Vaudeville: Historical Context of the Movies as Popular Entertainment -- 4. Nickelodeon Theaters, 1905-1914: Building an Audience for the Movies -- Part II: Struggles for Control, 1908-1930 -- 5. The Motion Picture Patents Company: A Reevaluation -- 6. Stars in Business: The Founding of United Artists -- 7. Blueprints for Feature Films: Hollywood's Continuity Scripts -- 8. The Motion Picture Industry as a Basis for Bond Financing -- 9. U.S. Film Exhibition: The Formation of a Big Business -- 10. The Coming of Sound: Technological Change in the American Film Industry -- Part III: A Mature Oligopoly, 1930-1948 -- 11. Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry -- 12. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- 13. Loew's, Inc. -- 14. The Star as Market Strategy: Bette Davis in Another Light -- 15. Self-Regulation in Operation -- Part IV: Retrenchment, Reappraisal, and Reorganization, 1948- -- 16. United States versus Hollywood: The Case Study of an Antitrust Suit -- 17. Hollywood's International Market -- 18. HUAC: The Mass Hearings -- 19. Censorship: From The Miracle to Deep Throat -- 20. The Paramount Decrees Reconsidered -- 21. "What's Happening to Our Pix Biz?" From Warner Bros. to Warner Communications Inc. -- Supplement: Warner Communications' International Operations -- 22. The Changing Economics of Entertainment -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index of Motion Picture Titles -- General Index.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aMotion picture industry-United States-History.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aBalio, Tino _tThe American Film Industry _dMadison : University of Wisconsin Press,c1985 _z9780299098704
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3445105 _zClick to View
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