divided labor, trendy technological innovations) explain the series of Hollywood modes of production from the camera-person mode, through the director-, director-unit, central-producer, producer-unit, and, finally, the package-unit systems, the last of which remains the major method for contemporary Hollywood financing and labor organization.

One of the major points that Staiger made was avoiding economic-only explanations to the causes for this industry's structure and processes. People do not try to produce the cheapest film; they