Formative industry trends, 1970-1979.
Manufacturing the blockbuster: the "newest art form of the twentieth-century".
The auteur cinema: directors and directions in the "Hollywood Renaissance".
Genres I: Revision, transformation, and revival.
Genres II: Exploitation and allusion.
Orders of magnitude I: Majors, mini-majors, "Instant majors," and independents.
Orders of magnitude II: Costs, agents, stars.
Technological innovation and aesthetic response.
Motion picture exhibition in 1970s America.
Looking back and turning inward: American documentary films of the seventies.
Avant-garde cinema of the seventies.