Death of the Moguls : the End of Classical Hollywood.

By:

Dixon, Wheeler Winston

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Techniques of the moving imagePublication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813553788
0813553784
0813553776
9780813553771
1283685566
9781283685566

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

384.80979494

LOC classification:

PN1993.5.U65 D59 2012eb

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Contents:

Title Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Frontispiece; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1. The Postwar Collapse; Chapter 2. White Fang at Columbia; Chapter 3. Z for Zanuck; Chapter 4. Mayer's MGM; Chapter 5. Zukor and Paramount; Chapter 6. The Major Minors; Chapter 7. Universal Goes Corporate; Chapter 8. That's All, Folks: Jack Warner's Lost Kingdom; Works Cited and Consulted; Index; About the Author.

Summary: Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the "rulers of film" from Hollywood's classical era, covering 20th Century-Fox, Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures. Using rare, behind-the-scenes stills, Wheeler Winston Dixon details such game-changing factors as the de Havilland decision, the Consent Decree, how the moguls dealt with their collapsing empires in the era of television, and the end of the conventional studio ass.

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Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the "rulers of film" from Hollywood's classical era, covering 20th Century-Fox, Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures. Using rare, behind-the-scenes stills, Wheeler Winston Dixon details such game-changing factors as the de Havilland decision, the Consent Decree, how the moguls dealt with their collapsing empires in the era of television, and the end of the conventional studio ass.