Introduction: United Artists in Film History ? Tino Balio Part 1
0. Introduction to Part 1
1. ‘One of the United Artists’: Buster Keaton, Joseph Schenck and United Artists
2. Declarations of Independence: Gloria Swanson at United Artists, 1925-1933
3. Going Independent in 1930s Hollywood: Freelance Star and Independent Producer Collaborations at United Artists
4. The Tramp, the Dictator and the Knight: United Artists and the Roadshowing of Prestige Pictures in the 1930s and 1940s
5. ‘Look, Ma, I’m A Corporation!’: United Artists and Kirk Douglas’s Bryna Productions 1955-1959
6. The Magnificent Seven Mirisch Companies: Competitive Strategy and Corporate Authorship
7. An Artist Under the Influence: United Artists and Woody Allen
8. No Shot in the Dark: Developing the Pink Panther Franchise Part 2
0. Introduction to Part 2
9. United Artists, Fourth Quarter 1980: The Rhetoric of Hollywood Failure & Success
10. ‘Cruising Is A Picture We Sincerely Wish We Did Not Have to Show’: United Artists, Ratings, Blind-bidding and the Controversy of William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980)
11. From Heaven’s Gate to Rocky IV: Reconfiguring Auteurism in United Artists’ Transition to MGM/UA in the 1980s
12. The Next Step: Orion Pictures as the New United Artists (1978-1985)
13. United Artists Films: Re-entering the Specialty Market (1999-2005)
14. From Star-Producer to Executive: Tom Cruise and/at United Artists (2006-2012)