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The Paramount Case
2010
Overview
TheParamountcase, the antitrust suit filed in 1938 by the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department against eight film companies (Paramount, Loew-MGM, RKO, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century–Fox, Columbia, Universal, and United Artists) ended in 1948 with the Supreme Court decision that separated production and distribution from exhibition, when restraining trade.¹ Until now, scholars have concentrated on this conclusion and its implications, rather than on the development of the case as aprocess, a complex interplay of different factors, subject to different tensions.
Studying theParamountcase as a process allows us to clarify how the Supreme Court decision
