Introduction, Annette Kujn and Jackie Stacey
PART ONE: Reception Histories
1. From Exhibition to Reception: Reflections on the Audience in Film History, Robert C. Allen
2. Hollywood Memories, Jackie Stacey
3. The `Popular' Cash and Culture in the Postwar British Cinema, Janet Thumim
PART TWO: Social Histories
4. Scenarios of Exposure in the Practice of Everyday Life, Constance Balides
5. The Proletarian Woman's Film of the 1930s: Contending With Censorship and Entertainment, Mary Beth Haralovich
6. The Married Love Affair, Annette Kuhn
PART THREE: Institutional Histories
7. Copyright Protection in Theatre, Vaudeville, and Early Cinema, Jeanne Allen
8. `Spread Like a Monster Blanket Over the Country': CBS and Television, 1929-33, William Boddy
9. Writing the History of the American Film Industry: Warner Bros and Sound, Douglas Gomery
10. The Disney-Fleischer Dilemma: Product Differentiation and Technological Innovation, Mark Langer
11. Baby Face, or How Joe Breen Made Barbara Stanwyck Atone for Causing the Wall Street Crash, Richard Maltby
PART FOUR: Textual Histories
12. A Scene at the `Movies', Ben Brewster
13. Narrative/Diegesis: Thresholds, Limits, Noel Burch
14. Heard Over the Phone: The Lonely Villa and the de Lorde Tradition of the Terrors of Technology, Tom Gunning
Appendix: Screen History in Screen, 1972-1997
Notes on Contributors