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.
The classical Hollywood reader. ISBN 9780415576741. Published by Routledge in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.