- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (24 Jan 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333325486
- ISBN-13: 978-0333325483
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,614,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entitles which produce and distribute most of the films we watch. Starting in 1920, Adolph Zukor, Head of Paramount Pictures, over the decade of the 1920s helped to fashion Hollywood into a vertically integrated system, a set of economic innovations which was firmly in place by 1930. For the next three decades, the movie industry in the United States and the rest of the world operated by according to these principles. Cultural, social and economic changes ensured the dernise of this system after the Second World War. A new way to run Hollywood was required. Beginning in 1962, Lew Wasserman of Universal Studios emerged as the key innovator in creating a second studio system. He realized that creating a global media conglomerate was more important than simply being vertically integrated. Gomery's history tells the story of a 'tale of two systems 'using primary materials from a score of archives across the United States as well as a close reading of both the business and trade press of the time. Together with a range of photographs never before published the book also features over 150 box features illuminating aspect of the business.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This book is blessing to those who wish to find out more! Alot of other film history books are lengthy, with alot of waffle and not really relevant to anything but opinion. This is an exceptance! This book has the facts, the inside story and unique infomation. This purchase is going be one of your best and at a resonable price, it shames the competition.
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Informative and factual - but unfortnately not quite as good as 'The Hollywood Studios' - ironically, which Douglas Gomery himself suggests. But a book for the true seeker after film-land history.
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excellent history of the studio system
12 Feb 2007
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Doug Gomery has written a fine book on the history of the Hollywood studio system. Whereas earlier treatments of this topic tend to neglect the period after the rise of television, Gomery does an excellent job of covering that period as well. One argument in the book that scholars will recognize as original is that the studio heads have always been quite concerned about distribution issues and that even though they no longer directly control the majority of movie screens they still have a lot to say about what gets screened and where. There is considerable detail in the book on the history of each of the major studios based on archival materials and interviews. This book should be required reading, in short, for anyone writing about Hollywood in the future.
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