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Back to Film<\/a> index page<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afra, Kia.\u00a0\u00a0The Hollywood Trust: Trade Associations and the Rise of the Studio System.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altman, Diana.\u00a0\u00a0Hollywood East: Louis B. Mayer and the Origins of the Studio System<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balio,\u00a0Tino.\u00a0\u00a0United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars<\/em>.\u00a0 Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balio, Tino.\u00a0\u00a0MGM<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0New York: Routledge, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bingen, Steven.\u00a0\u00a0The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biskind, Peter.\u00a0Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film<\/em>. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carey, Gary.  All the Stars in Heaven: Louis B. Mayer\u2019s MGM<\/em>.  New York: Dutton, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen, Harvey G. \u201cThe Struggle to Fashion the NRA Code: The Triumph of Studio Power in 1933 Hollywood.\u201d Journal of American Culture<\/em> 50:4 (2016): 1039-1066.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conant, Michael.  Antitrust in the Motion Picture Industry: Economic and Legal Analysis<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crowther, Bosley.  The Lion\u2019s Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire<\/em>.  New York: Dutton, 1957. MGM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Custen, George.\u00a0\u00a0Twentieth Century Fox:\u00a0 Darryl F. Zanuck and the Culture of Hollywood<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Basic Books, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dick, Bernard F. City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. <\/em>Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eams, John Douglas.\u00a0 The MGM Story<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Crown, 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyman, Scott.\u00a0\u00a0Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FitzGerald, Michael Ray.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAdjuncts of Government: Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th<\/sup>\u00a0Century Fox in Service to the Executive Branch, 1935-1971.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em>\u00a036:3 (2016): 373-391.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flamini, Roland.\u00a0\u00a0Thalberg: The Last Tycoon and the World of MGM<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Crown, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freedland, Michael.\u00a0\u00a0The Warner Brothers<\/em>.\u00a0 London:\u00a0Harrap, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabler, Neal.\u00a0\u00a0An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Crown, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gartenberg, Jon.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cVitagraph Before Griffith: Forging Ahead in the Nickelodeon Era.\u201d\u00a0Studies in Visual Communication<\/em>10:4 (Fall 1984): 7-23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gomery, Douglas.  The Hollywood Studio System, 1930-1949<\/em>.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gorham, Kindem, ed.  The American Movie Industry: The Business of Motion Pictures<\/em>.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jewell, Richard B.\u00a0\u00a0Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce, Simon, and Jennifer Putzi. “\u201cGreatest Combination in Motion Pictures\u201d: Film History and the Division of Labor in the New York Motion Picture Company.”\u00a0Film History: An International Journal<\/em>\u00a021, no. 3 (2009): 189-207.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kindem, Gorham, ed.  The American Movie Industry<\/em>.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King, Rob. \u201cMade for the Masses With an Appeal to the Classes: The Triangle Film Corporation and the Failure of Highbrow Film Culture.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em> 44:2 (Winter 2005): 3-33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King, Rob.  The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lafontaine, Andree. \u201cThe Rise and Fall of Cosmopolitan Productions: William Randolph Hearst\u2019s Cross-Promotional Strategies.\u201d  JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies <\/em>60:2 (Winter 2021): 32-55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lev, Peter.\u00a0\u00a0Twentieth-Century Fox: The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935-1965<\/em>.\u00a0 Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melnick, Ross.\u00a0American Showman: Samuel \u201cRoxy\u201d Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908\u20131935<\/em>. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Menne, Jeff.\u00a0\u00a0Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mordden, Ethan.\u00a0\u00a0The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies<\/em>. New York: Knopf, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins, Edwin J. \u201cWriting the Script for Survival and Resurgence: RKO Studio and the Impact of the Great Depression, 1932\u20131933.\u201d Southern California Quarterly<\/em> 93 (Fall 2011): 289\u2013311.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roddick, Nick.  A New Deal in Entertainment: Warner Brothers in the 1930s<\/em>.  London: BFI, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schatz, Thomas.  The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era<\/em>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson, David.  Warner Brothers: The Making of an American Movie Studio<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uricchio, William, and Robert E. Pearson.\u00a0\u00a0Reframing Culture: The Case of Vitagraph Quality Films<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yogerst, Chris.\u00a0\u00a0From Headlines to Hollywood: The Birth and Boom of Warner Brothers<\/em>. Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to Film index page Afra, Kia.\u00a0\u00a0The Hollywood Trust: Trade Associations and the Rise of the Studio System.\u00a0\u00a0Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Altman, Diana.\u00a0\u00a0Hollywood East: Louis B. Mayer and the Origins of the Studio System.\u00a0\u00a0New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992. Balio,\u00a0Tino.\u00a0\u00a0United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars.\u00a0 Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. Balio, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1017","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}