Engulfed
The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood
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Word Count
67,250 words, Guess
Page Count
269 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveengulfeddeathofp0000dick
- Internet Archiveengulfeddeathpar00dick
- ISBN-100813122023
- ISBN-139780813122021
- Goodreads1256233
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- LibraryThing3675721
- Library of Congress Control Number00012276
- OCLC Control Number45320678
- Better World Books9780813122021
- Better World BooksW8-ASR-480
- Open LibraryOL8022471M
Classifications
- LCCPN1999.P3 D53 2001
- LCCPN1999.P3D53 2001
- LCCPN 1999 P3 D53 2001
Description
"In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf + Western's 1966 takeover of the studio signaled the end of one era and heralded a new way of doing business in Hollywood.". "Bernard Dick reconstructs the battle that culminated in the reduction of the studio to a mere corporate commodity. Using previously unexamined sources, he traces Paramount's devolution from free-standing studio to subsidiary - first of Gulf + Western, then Paramount Communications, and currently Viacom-CBS.". "Dick portrays the new Paramount as a paradigm of today's Hollywood, where the only real art is the art of the deal. Former merchandising executives find themselves in charge of production, on the assumption that anyone who can sell a movie can make one."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
It is a truism to call the American motion picture industry the creation of Central and Eastern European immigrants and their sons.
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