Del 10 i serien History of the American Cinema

New Pot of Gold

Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980–1989

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Facing 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"; and, "Body Heat".

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2002-03-15
Mått178 x 254 x 28 mm
Vikt1 043 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistory of the American Cinema
Antal sidor585
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520232662

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Film inom Kultur
Media och underhållning inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionContents1 The Industry at the Dawn of the Decade2 Merger Mania3 The Brave New Ancillary World4 Independents, Packaging, and Inflationary:Pressure in 1980s HollywoodJustin Wyatt5 The Talent Oligopoly6 The Filmmakers7 Genres and Production Cycles8 Movies and Morality9 American Documentary in the 1980sCarl Plantinga10 Experimental Cinema in the 1980sScott MacDonaldAppendices: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 45:3NotesBibliographyPicture SourcesGeneral IndexIndex of Films

"Prince's book pushes us to reconceptualize the interactions of economics and ideology.... It evokes and invokes the richness of filmmaking practices-both mainstream and alternative-even as it gives a harsh and perhaps tragic image of a cultural form, the cinema, losing its specificity and even identity in the vast synergistic networks of control at the end of the twentieth century."-Dana Polan, Film Quarterly; "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