Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Foreword / Smythe, Dallas W. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Roots of Dependency, 1906-1930 -- 2. Dependency Deepened, 1920-1940: The American Film Industry Cartel -- 3. In the Shadow of the U.S. and British Film Industries -- 4. State Intervention and the Battle to Gain Control -- 5. Tax-Shelter Policy and the Industrialization of Canadian Cinema -- 6. Coproductions and Merchants of Culture -- 7. The Combines Law Revisited: The Cineplex Case -- 8. Free Trade Anxieties: National Institutions and Cultural Autonomy -- Appendix of Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index