Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: from the MPPC to the MPPDA: how competition and collaboration forged an industry
  • Abbreviations
  • Prelude to association: censorship, antitrust, and the industry's public relations campaign in 1915
  • The Motion Picture Board of Trade: consensus and division within the ranks (September 1915-June 1916)
  • NAMPI and the prewar period (July 1916-March 1917)
  • NAMPI in wartime (April 1917
  • November 1918)
  • NAMPI in the postwar era (December 1918-December 1920)
  • NAMPI's decline (January 1921-March 1922)
  • The MPPDA's foundational period (March 1922-December 1924)
  • The MPPDA, Wall Street, and theater circuits (1925-1926)
  • Testing the limits of expansion: The department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission confront Hollywood (1927-1928)
  • Conclusion: from The Edison Trust to the Hollywood majors: trade organizations and historiography.