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On the theme of using film history to articulate issues in librarianship, there's an interesting piece to be written paralleling block booking in US cinemas until 1948 and Big Deals in contemporary scholarly publishing.On Internet Archive
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Block booking was a practice among Hollywood studios of selling films to theatres as a block mixing the films that theatres actually wanted with lower-quality films which the theatres then had to show as part of the contractual agreement.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Theatres wanted the good films - the A-list films - but they ended up with all kinds of guff because of the economic practices imposed on them by the big studios.Permalink On Internet Archive
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The difference between block booking and contemporary Big Deals is that block booking was banned by the Supreme Court in 1948 because it was a monopolising practice that gave the studios too much power.Permalink On Internet Archive