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1 online resource |
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Post 45 |
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Post 45.
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| Contents |
Logorrhea, or, How to watch a Hollywood movie -- Last of the independents : paranoid auteurs and the invention of neoclassical Hollywood -- The literal and the littoral : Jaws -- Paramount I : from the director's company to high concept -- Our man in Armani : the Ovitz interregnum -- The projections : neoclassicism in action -- Paramount II : the residue of design -- Let's make the weather : chaos comes to Hollywood -- Hollywood the day after tomorrow : neoclassical endings? -- That oceanic feeling : one merger too many -- The anxious epic and the qualms of empire : conglomerate overstretch |
| Summary |
Modern Hollywood is dominated by a handful of studios: Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. Threatened by independents in the 1970s, they returned to power in the 1980s, ruled unquestioned in the 1990s, and in the new millennium are again beseiged. But in the heyday of this new classical era, the major studios movies - their stories and styles - were astonishingly precise biographies of the studios that made them. Movies became product placements for their studios, advertising them to the industry, to their employees, and to the public at large. If we want to know how |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion picture studios -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
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Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
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Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Motion picture industry
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Motion picture studios
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Motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History
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California -- Los Angeles
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California -- Los Angeles -- Hollywood
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804794749 |
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080479474X |
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