New Pot of Gold - Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 19801989

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Prince is Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. His books include The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa (1999); Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies (1998); and Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Films (1992). Klappentext "Stephen Prince's A New Pot of Gold is good at sustaining a coherent historical narrative and critical commentary on the 1980s--a period when video and film grew closer together! and when Hollywood came under the control of global capitalism."-James O. Naremore! author of Acting in the Cinema Zusammenfassung Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood moved to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk and pay-cable. The studios found themselves targeted for acquisition by global media and communications companies. This book examines the transformation that took Hollywood from the production of theatrical film to media software. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Contents 1 The Industry at the Dawn of the Decade 2 Merger Mania 3 The Brave New Ancillary World 4 Independents, Packaging, and Inflationary:Pressure in 1980s Hollywood Justin Wyatt 5 The Talent Oligopoly 6 The Filmmakers 7 Genres and Production Cycles 8 Movies and Morality 9 American Documentary in the 1980s Carl Plantinga 10 Experimental Cinema in the 1980s Scott MacDonald Appendices: APPENDIX 1 LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS  APPENDIX 2 TOP BOX-OFFICE FILMS OF THE 1980s  APPENDIX :3 MAJOR ACADEMY AWARDS, 1980-1988  APPENDIX 4 THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY 45:3 Notes Bibliography Picture Sources General Index Index of Films

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• Autoren: Stephen Prince
• Verlag: University Of California Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.03.2002
• EAN: 9780520232662
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23266-2
• Seiten: 585
• Serien: History of the American Cinema S.; History of the American Cinema; History of the American Cinema
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Fotografie, Film, Video, TV; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment, Films, cinema, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry