Columbia Pictures Portrait of a Studio.
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1992.
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I. The History of Columbia, 1920-1991; From the Brothers Cohn to Sony Corporation; Chronology; Part II. The Art of Columbia; 1 Frank Capra at Columbia: Necessity and Invention; Illustrations; 2 Columbia's Screwball Comedies: Wine, Women and Wisecracks; 3 Film Noir at Columbia: Fashion and Innovation; 4 Rita Hayworth at Columbia: The Fabrication of a Star; 5 Judy Holliday: The Star and the Studio; 6 An Interview with Daniel Taradash: From Harvard to Hollywood; 7 On the Waterfront: ""Like It Ain't Part of America"" 8 Anatomy of a Murder: Life and Art in the Courtroom9 Columbia and the Counterculture: Trilogy of Defeat; 10 Taxi Driver: Bringing Home the War; 11 Lawrence of Arabia, 1962, 1989: ""It Looks Damn Good""; 12 A Soldier's Story: A Paradigm for Justice; 13 The Last Emperor: A Subject-in-the-Making; Filmography: The Columbia Features, 1920-1991; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
The recent 3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's worst scandals under David Begelman, as well as ownership by Coca-Cola and David Puttnam's misguided attempt to bring back the studio's glory days. Columbia Pictures traces Columbia's history from its beginnings as the CBC Film Sales Company (nicknamed ""Corned Beef and Cabbage"") through the regimes of Harry Cohn and his successors, and concludes with a vivid portrait of today's corporate Hollywood, with its investment bankers, entertainment lawyers, agen.