The classical Hollywood reader/ edited by Steve Neale.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Emotional curves and linear narratives / Patrick Keating -- Feature films, Hollywood and the advent of the studio system, 1912-1926. The quality race: feature films and market dominance in the US and Europe in the 1910s / Berben Bakker -- Making movies, 1915-1928 / Richard Koszarski -- The limits of experimentation in Hollywood / Kristin Thompson -- Doing a man's work: the rise of the studio system and the remasculinization of filmmaking / Karen Ward Mahar -- Hollywood's conception of its audiences in the 1920s / Lea Jacobs and Andrea Cominsky -- Sound and the studio system, 1926-1946. The coming of sound: technological change in the American film industry / Douglas Gomery -- Hollywood babel: Ginette Vincendeau considers the coming of sound and the multiple language version / Ginette Vincendeau -- Organization / Howard T. Lewis -- Hollywood: the triumph of the studio system / Thomas Schatz -- Cinemagoing in the United States in the mid-1930s: a study based on the variety dataset / Mark Glancy and John Sedgwick -- Selling stars / Tino Balio -- Representation, technology, production and style, 1926-1946. The production code and the mythologies of "pre-code" hollywood / Richard Maltby -- Commanding the sounds of the universe: classical hollywood sound / Steve Neale -- The classical Hollywood film score / Kathryn Kalinak -- Shooting for Selznick: craft and collaboration in Hollywood cinematography / Patrick Keating -- Order and plenitude: technicolor aesthetics in the classical era / Scott Higgins -- The Disney-Fleischer dilemma: product differentiation and technological innovation / Mark Langer -- Postwar Hollywood and the end of the studio system, 1946-1966. Individualism versus collectivism: Janet Staiger reconsiders the shift to independent production in the US film industry -- Ozoners, roadshows and blitz exhibitionism: postwar developments in distribution and exhibition / Sheldon Hall -- Glorious technicolor, breathtaking cinemascope, and stereophonic sound / John Belton -- Hollywood and television in the 1950s: the roots of diversification / Janet Wasko -- Hollywood and politics in the 1940s and 1950s / Brian Neve -- Arties and imports, exports and runaways, adult films and exploitation / Steve Neale -- Epilogue.