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Death of the Moguls : the End of Classical Hollywood.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813553788
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1993 .D438 2012
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Contents:
Subject: 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.

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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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