From: Jacob Waltman (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Dec 04 2009 - 10:56:48 PST
Not sure if they've been mentioned yet, and not a single text, but I think Scott MacDonald's series would prove a useful introduction:
Art in Cinema: Documents Towards the History of the Film Society-
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1819_reg.html
Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor-
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10790.php
Cinema 16: Documents Towards the History of the Film Society-
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1628_reg.html
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