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Entertainment Industrialized: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Gerben Bakker
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 579 - 585
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2003. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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1. For example, Harpole, Charles, ed., The History of American Cinema, vols. 1-10 (Berkeley, Calif., 1990-2000)Google Scholar; Low, Rachel, The History of the British Film Industry, 1896-1939, vols. 1-7 (London, 1948-1985; 1997)Google Scholar; Sadoul, Georges, Histoire Générale du Cinéma, vols. 1-6 (Paris, 1948-1954)Google Scholar.

2. For example, Bordwell, David, Staiger, Janet, and Thompson, Kristin, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (New York, 1985)Google Scholar. An exception is the work of Sedgwick, John and Pokorny, Mike, “The Risk Environment of Film Making: Warner Brothers in the Inter-War Years,” Explorations in Economic History 35 (April 1998): 196–220.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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8. I have published parts of these chapters in Bakker, Gerben, “America’s Master: Decline and Fall of the European Film Industry in the United States, 1907-1920,” in Across the Atlantic, ed. Passerini, Luisa (Brussels, 2000), 213–40.Google Scholar

9. Part of this chapter has been published in Bakker, Gerben, “Stars and Stories: How Films Became Branded Products,” Enterprise and Society 2 (Sept. 2001): 461–502 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and “Building Knowledge about the Consumer: The Emergence of Market Research in the Motion Picture Industry,” Business History 44 (Jan. 2003): 101-27.

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