Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; Chapter I. THE STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITION SINCE 1948; The Paramount Litigation; An Analysis of the Paramount Decision and Its Implications for Domestic Exhibition; The Beginnings of a Modern Structure for Domestic Exhibition; Domestic Exhibition and an Account of the Film Industry's Structure Since 1963; Chapter II. DOMESTIC EXHIBITION AND ITS ADVERSARY RELATIONSHIP WITH AMERICA'S MAJOR DISTRIBUTORS IN THE SEVENTIES
The Diminution of ProductAn Escalation of Film Rental Terms; The Reallocation of Profits and Losses; Chapter III. A SPLINTERING OF POWER GROUPS WITHIN DOMESTIC EXHIBITION IN THE 1970S; Chapter IV. THE AMERICAN MOVIE THEATRE; Criminogenic Theory and the American Movie Theatre in the 1970s; The American Motion Picture Theatre as Message; Chapter V. SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF DOMESTIC EXHIBITION; More Implications from the Paramount Decision and ''Window Framing"" in the 1970s; Network Television; Subscription Television; Video-cassettes and Video-discs; Domestic Exhibition in the 1980s
Summary
This study looks at how the movie industry organisation functioned between the late '40s and 1983 when it was originally published. It describes the changing role of domestic exhibition through this time and analyses the wider film industry to provide a model of the exhibition structure in relation to production, distribution and outside factors. It addresses the growing issues of the cable and video markets as competition to the film exhibition business at that time and looks forward into a highly turbulent environment. With particular interest now as the film industry address a new range
