A new pot of gold : Hollywood under the electronic rainbow, 1980-1989
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A new pot of gold : Hollywood under the electronic rainbow, 1980-1989
(History of the American cinema, v. 10)
University of California Press, 2002
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Originally published: New York : C. Scribner's, 2000
Bibliography: p. 477-487
Includes indexes
LCCN:2001053491
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Description
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".
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Contents
1 The Industry at the Dawn of the Decade
2 Merger Mania
3 The Brave New Ancillary World
4 Independents, Packaging, and Inflationary:Pressure in 1980s Hollywood
Justin Wyatt
5 The Talent Oligopoly
6 The Filmmakers
7 Genres and Production Cycles
8 Movies and Morality
9 American Documentary in the 1980s
Carl Plantinga
10 Experimental Cinema in the 1980s
Scott MacDonald
Appendices:
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 45:3
Notes
Bibliography
Picture Sources
General Index
Index of Films
by "Nielsen BookData"