Introduction: United Artists in Film History - Tino Balio Part 1 Introduction to Part 1 - Yannis Tzioumakis Chapter 1 'One of the United Artists': Buster Keaton, Joseph Schenck and United Artists - Peter Krämer Chapter 2 Declarations of Independence: Gloria Swanson at United Artists, 1925-1933 - Mike Mashon Chapter 3 Going Independent in 1930s Hollywood: Freelance Star and Independent Producer Collaborations at United Artists - Emily Carman Chapter 4 The Tramp, the Dictator and the Knight: United Artists and the Roadshowing of Prestige Pictures in the 1930s and 1940s - Sheldon Hall Chapter 5 'Look, Ma, I'm A Corporation!': United Artists and Kirk Douglas's Bryna Productions 1955-1959 - James Fenwick Chapter 6 The Magnificent Seven Mirisch Companies: Competitive Strategy and Corporate Authorship - Paul Kerr Chapter 7 An Artist Under the Influence: United Artists and Woody Allen - Michael Petitti Chapter 8 No Shot in the Dark: Developing the Pink Panther Franchise - Oliver Gruner Part 2 Introduction to Part 2 - Yannis Tzioumakis Chapter 9 United Artists, Fourth Quarter 1980: The Rhetoric of Hollywood Failure & Success - Justin Wyatt Chapter 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) - Gary Needham Chapter 11 From Heaven's Gate to Rocky IV : Reconfiguring Auteurism in United Artists' Transition to MGM/UA in the 1980s - Nicholas Godfrey Chapter 12 The Next Step: Orion Pictures as the New United Artists (1978-1985) - Yannis Tzioumakis Chapter 13 United Artists Films: Re-entering the Specialty Market (1999-2005) - Lisa Dombrowski Chapter 14 From Star-Producer to Executive: Tom Cruise and/at United Artists (2006-2012) - Sarah E.S. Sinwell.