The American Film Industry

Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography The following selected bibliography lists publications on the history of the American motion picture industry, its trade practices, and its leaders. A more comprehensive listing of the literature may be found in Industrial Arts Index, vols. 1-45, 1913-57; Business Periodicals Index, vols. 1-, 1958-; International Index to Film Periodicals (New York: FIAF, 1972-), Film: A Reference Guide, ed. Robert A. Armour (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1980); The New Film Index: A Bibliography ofMagazine Articles in English, 1930-1970, ed. Richard Dyer MacCann and Edward S. Perry (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1975); and The Critical Index: A Bibliography ofArticles on Film in English, 1946-1973, ed. John C. Gerlach and Lana Gerlach (New York: Teachers College Press, 1974). The standard references on all aspects of the industry are Film Daily Year Book ofMotion Pictures, published annually from 1917 to 1969, and Motion Picture Almanac and its successor, International Motion Picture Almanac, published annually from 1929. The standard trade publications are Variety, published from 1905, and Moving Picture World (1907-27), which merged with Exhibitors' Herald and later became known as Motion Picture Herald. Special attention should be given to the Journal ofthe Producers Guild of America (known more familiarly as the Journal ofthe Screen Producers Guild), which since 1958 has analyzed contemporary conditions in the industry. Allen, Robert C. Vaudeville and Film, 1895-1915: A Study in Media Interaction . New York: Arno, 1980. Allvine, Glendon. The Greatest Fox ofThem All. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1969. Balaban, Carrie. Continuous Performance. New York: A. J. Balaban Foundation , 1964. Balio, Tino. United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. Balshofer, Fred J., and Miller, Arthur E. One Reel a Week. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967. Barnouw, Erik. Tube ofPlenty: The Evolution ofAmerican Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Baumgarten, Paul A., and Farber, Donald C. Producing, Financing, and Distributing Film. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1973. Behlmer, Rudy, ed. Memofrom David O. Selznick. New York: Viking, 1972. 633 634 Selected Bibliography Bernheim. Alfred L. The Business ofthe Theater. New York: Actors' Equity Association, 1932; rpt. ed., New York: Benjamin Blom, 1964. Bertrand, Daniel; Evans, W. Duane; and Blanchard, E. L. The Motion Picture Industry: A Pattern ofControl, TNEC Monograph 43. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. Bordwell, David; Staiger, Janet; and Thompson, Kristin. The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Brown, Les. Television: The Business behind the Box. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. Brownlow, Kevin. The Parade's Gone By. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Campaigne, Benjamin M., ed. Who Owns the Media? White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1979. Carmen, Ira H. Movies, Censorship, and the Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966. Ceplair, Larry, and Englund, Steven. The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960. New York: Doubleday, 1980. Ceram, C. W. Archaeology ofthe Cinema. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1955. Chanan, Michae1. The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Cogley, John. Report on Blacklisting I: The Movies. Fund for the Republic, 1956. Conant, Michael. Antitrust in the Motion Picture Industry. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960. Crowther, Bosley. The Lion's Share: The Story ofan Entertainment Empire. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1957. __. Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times ofLouis B. Mayer. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960. Daly, David A. A Comparison ofExhibition andDistribution Patterns in Three Recent Feature Motion Pictures. New York: Amo, 1980. Danielian, N. R. AT & T: The Story ofIndustrial Conquest. New York: Vanguard , 1939. Dowdy, Andrew. The Films ofthe Fifties: The American State ofMind. New York: William Morrow, 1973. Drinkwater, John. The Life and Adventures ofCarl Laemmle. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. Facey, Paul W. The Legion ofDecency: A Sociological Analysis ofthe Emergence and Development ofa Pressure Group. New York: Amo, 1974. Farber, Stephen. The Movie Rating Game. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1972. Fell, John L. Film and the Narrative Tradition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. Fernett, Gene. Poverty Row. Satellite Beach, Fla.: Coral Reef Publications, 1973. Selected Bibliography 635 Fielding, Raymond. A Technological History ofMotion Pictures and Television. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967. __. The American Newsreel, 1911-1967. Norman: University...