Robert L. Carringer, Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Ubrana-Champaign, has written numerous articles on film and, with Barry Sabath, The Film Career of Ernest Lubitsch.
    Tino Balio, Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the author of United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, and the editor of The American Film Industry as well as the 22 volume Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay series, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He directed the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research from 1966 to 1882.

• Contents 
• Foreword
• Balio, Tino
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: History of a Popular Culture Classic
• Carringer, Robert L.
• Illustrations
• The Jazz Singer
• Annotation to the Screenplay
• Production Credits
• Cast
• Appendix 1: 
• The Synchronized Sound Sequences
• Appendix 2: 
• “The Day of Atonement”
• Appendix 3: 
• “Warner Brothers Studios”
• Appendix 4: 
• “Vitaphone Activity in Hollywood”
• Appendix 5: 
• “How the Vitaphone Enters In”
• Appendix 6: 
• Musical Score for “The Jazz Singer”
• Appendix 7: 
• “‘Vitaphone’: What the Projection Entails”