Overview

Unlike any previous volume on a film studio, this in-depth history is told from a corporate viewpoint, covering the trends that influenced film-making, profit-making incentives, and the creative policies resulting in films like The Grapes of Wrath, The Snake Pit, The Robe, Cleopatra, The Towering Inferno, and Star Wars. The book spans the birth of the movies; the rise of the studio system; the coming of sound; the Consent Decrees; the development of CinemaScope; the growth of independent production; and the video revolution. Available in paperback 2001.

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The tale of its triumphs and disasters is told in this book with admirable clarity and spirit... Film Review Annual ...a good history...a thorough and professional job. Variety ...a fascinating, and continuing, saga. Incite ...flavorful sampling of the memoranda of productions chief Darryl Zanuck... Choice

The tale of its triumphs and disasters is told in this book with admirable clarity and spirit... * Film Review Annual * ...a good history...a thorough and professional job. * Variety * ...a fascinating, and continuing, saga. * Incite * ...flavorful sampling of the memoranda of productions chief Darryl Zanuck.... * CHOICE * The tale of its triumphs and disasters is told in this book with admirable clarity and spirit... Film Review Annual ...a good history...a thorough and professional job. Variety ...a fascinating, and continuing, saga. Incite ...flavorful sampling of the memoranda of productions chief Darryl Zanuck... CHOICE

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Aubrey Solomon has been an active television writer/story editor and also produced the Twentieth Century-Fox television show That's Hollywood.

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