MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aPN1993.5.U65$bS3 2010
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100 1 $aSchatz, Thomas,$d1948-
245 14 $aThe genius of the system :$bHollywood filmmaking in the studio era /$cThomas Schatz ; preface by Steven Bach.
250 $a1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
260 $aMinneapolis :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$c2010.
300 $axii, 514 p. :$bill., map ;$c22 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1989.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 493-507) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: "the whole equation of pictures" -- The 1920's: beginnings. Universal: the system takes shape -- MGM: dawn of the Thalberg era -- Selznick at MGM: climbing the executive ranks -- Warner Bros.: talking their way to the top -- 1928-1932: the powers that be. Selznick at Paramount: from boom to bust -- Universal: renaissance and retrenchment -- MGM and Thalberg: alone at the top -- Selznick at RKO: at the helm of a foundering studio -- Warner Bros.: the Zanuck era -- the 1930s: golden age. MGM in the mid-thirties: charmed interval -- Selznick international pictures: going independent -- Warner Bros.: power plays and prestige -- Universal: playng both ends against the middle -- MGM: life after Thalberg -- Selznick and Hitchcock: balance of power -- 1941-1946: war boom. Warner Bros.: warfare at home and abroad -- David O. Selznick Productions: packaging prestige -- Universal: the best of both worlds -- MGM: the high cost of quality -- Selznick and Hitchcock: separate ways -- 1947-1960: decline. Warner Bros.: top of the world, end of the line -- MGM: last gasp of the studio era -- Universal: blueprint for the television age -- Epilogue: into the new Hollywood.
650 0 $aMotion picture industry$zUnited States$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMotion picture studios$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aHollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)$xHistory$y20th century.