Introduction: American Film History as a Multiplicity Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Paula J. Massood Part I: Alternate Archives
1. Cinema’s Playful Objects: On Toys and the Movies
2. Finding Its Voice? Sound and the (Re)-writing of Film History
3. Doing Disney History Despite Disney
4. Doing Bad Film History: Lessons on Archive and Method from John Waters Part II: Hidden Labor
5. Heroes, Villains, or Collaborators: The Place of Hollywood Unions in American Film Industry History
6. ‘Students Will Be Participants’: Designing Working-Class Film Education at The Harry Alan Potamkin Film SchoolMcKayla Sluga
7. The Reticent Close-Up: Editing and Understatement in the Films of Barbara McLean Part III: Historicizing Style
8. Teaching Hollywood to Speak: Voice Culture and the Transition to Sound
9. Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, and Method Acting: Between Art and Commerce
10. New Pathways Toward a New Hollywood: Love with the Proper Stranger Part IV: Racialized Technologies
11. Written Refusals: Oscar Micheaux’s Confrontations with the New York State Motion Picture Commission
12. Hollywood Color: Race, Aesthetics, Technology and
13. ‘Basic Dark Face’: Writing the History of Makeup in Post-Civil Rights Hollywood Part V: Histories of Fans and Spectators
14. Movie Stars Make News: Fan Magazines, Print Culture, and American Film History of the Studio Era
15. ‘I Want Big Things:’ Beauty Merchandising and Noir’s ‘Femme Fans’Shelley Stamp
16. Any Given Sunday at La Cadena Metropolitana: Spanish-Language Theaters in Los Angeles and the Influence of Film Exhibitors, 1963-2001 Part VI: Cinema’s Material Cultures
17. Early Motion Pictures’ Cultures of PrintSarah Gleeson-White
18. Histories of Exhibition and Spectatorship: Loss and Imagination
19. The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of: Re-Materializing Spectatorship Studies Part VII: Transnational Production
20. Speculating a Speculative History of Early Chinese American Film Culture
21. Neither Invasion nor Americanization: A Short History of the French Film Industry in Fort Lee
22. When Hollywood Came to Greece: 20th Century-Fox and the Challenges of Turning a Small Country into a Runaway Film Production Destination in the 1950s
23. The Quintessential Seventies Picture Show: Voyage of the Damned (1976) as Heritage Film between Art Cinema and Disaster FlickRoy Grundmann Part VIII: Intermedial Histories
24. Parabola: Transhistorical Connections Between Experimental Film and Music Videos
25. From Home Movie Makers to Content Creators: Forging a Genealogy of Self-Made Media
26. Webs of Stories: 21st Century Native American Film and Television
27. ‘Drawn to Life’: Intermedial Promotion and the Monetization of Film History in Disney and Cirque du Soleil Part IX: Movies as/in History
28. ‘Once Upon a Time…’: Movies about Hollywood as Film History
29. A Netflix Original: History, Hollywood and Commemoration in the Streaming Era
30. Acts of Recovery: Excavating Youth through the Detritus of Film History Pamela Robertson Wojcik Part X: Historical Afterlives of Cinema
31. In the Wake of Archival Rediscovery: The Afterlives of Something Good-Negro Kiss (1898)Allyson Nadia Field
32. Rediscovered Again: The Nonlinear Path of Alice Guy Blache into US Film History
33. Casablanca: Rethinking Film History Through the Old Classics
34. ‘There’s No More to Say?’: The Lives and Afterlives of Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason Paula J. Massood