A New Pot of Gold

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Prince is Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. His books include The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa (1999); Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies (1998); and Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Films (1992). Klappentext "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 Zusammenfassung 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 Body Heat Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

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Stephen Prince is Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. His books include The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa (1999); Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies (1998); and Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Films (1992).

Klappentext
"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

Zusammenfassung
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

Body Heat

Inhalt
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

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