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Stardom, Spectacle, Show, and Salability: United Artists and the Founding of the Hollywood Blockbuster Model
<p>United Artists was an independent film distribution company that Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford jointly formed in 1919 to maintain creative autonomy over their work. Without the benefit of block booking practices through studio-owned theater houses, each …
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Would You Recommend This Picture to Your Friends? A History of Hollywood Test Screenings
… 1954), Shaft (MGM, 1971), and Apocalypse Now (United Artists, 1979). MGM used preview screenings to defuse censorship threats over Red-Headed Woman, a pre-Code sex comedy. Intended for a predominantly female audience, it exists at the intersection between optimism and anxieties over the concept …