Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 (History of the American Cinema)
"A work of major importance for the serious study of American  film."  --Dana Polan, Film Quarterly"Fascinating. . . . Grand Design  gives the most convincing  picture yet  of how the Hollywood system operated in the 1930s, and was to continue  to  operate until social changes and the belated introduction of antitrust  legislation in the post-war period brought the system to a lingering end  in the  1950s."  --Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement