A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980 1989Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found themselves targeted for acquisition by global media and communications companies. This volume examines the decade's transformation that took Hollywood from the production of theatrical film to media software. Some of the films discussed in this volume include: Platoon Do the Right Thing Blue Velvet Diner E.T. Batman Body Heat |
Contents
The Industry at the Dawn of the Decade | 1 |
Merger Mania | 40 |
The Brave New Ancillary World | 90 |
Independents Packaging and Inflationary | 142 |
The Talent Oligopoly | 160 |
The Filmmakers | 186 |
Genres and Production Cycles | 287 |
Movies and Morality | 341 |
American Documentary in the 1980s | 370 |
Experimental Cinema in the 1980s | 390 |
Notes | 455 |
Bibliography | 477 |
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A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980 1989 Stephen Prince Limited preview - 2002 |
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