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.