Chapter 1: Before Hollywood
“for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”: Thomas A. Edison, Patent Caveat 110, October 8, 1888, Edison National Historical Site Archives.
Chapter 2: The studio system
“Every foot of American film”: quoted in Toby Miller, “Hollywood and the World,” in The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, ed. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 373.
“The motion picture carries to every American”: quoted in Mary Ann Doane, “The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the Cinema,” in Movies and Mass Culture, ed. John Belton (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996), 121.
Chapter 3: Sound and the Production Code
“business pure and simple”: Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, 236 U.S. 230 (1915).
“from which conclusions might be drawn”: Jason Joy to James Wingate, February 5, 1931, Production Code Administration, Little Caesar File, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles.
Chapter 4: Hollywood at war
“are manifestations of fascism”: The Government Informational Manual for the Motion Picture Industry (Washington, DC: Office of War Information, 1942).
Chapter 5: The blacklist and the Cold War
“Well, if you ask me literally, pretty much no” and “they didn’t suit their purposes”: Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry, 80th Congress, 1st Session, October 20, 1947.
“The only thing red about [Lucy]”: quoted in Thomas Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 53.
“dangerous and alien conspiracy”: Elia Kazan, “A Statement,” ad, New York Times, April 12, 1952, 7.
“No one can doubt in these chaotic times”: Lawson v. United States, 176 F.2D 49 (D.C. Cir. 1949).
Chapter 6: The New Hollywood
“cinema has not yet been invented”: André Bazin, “The Myth of Total Cinema,” in What Is Cinema?, trans. and ed. Hugh Gray, vol. 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 23–27.
“If a person can tell me the idea in 25 words or less”: quoted in Justin Wyatt, High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994), p. 13.