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Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon
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Título Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood
Autor Wheeler Winston Dixon
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Páginas 264
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Rutgers University Press
Fecha de publicación 2012-08
Ilustrado Sí
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780813553771 / 0813553776
Peso 0.8 libras (0.36 kg)
Dimensiones 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 pulgadas (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
Temas
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1960's
Library of Congress subjects Motion picture industry - California - Los, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) - History -
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2011046940
Dewey Decimal Code 384.809

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WHEELER WINSTON DIXON is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His many books include 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster), A History of Horror, and Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia (all Rutgers University Press).

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Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood

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ISBN 10 / ISBN 13

9780813553771 / 0813553776

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Paperback / softback. New. Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the ""rulers of film."" Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, and Herbert J. Yates at Republic in the dying days of their once-mighty empires. He asserts that the sheer force of personality and business acumen displayed by these moguls made the studios successful; their deaths or departures hastened the studios' collapse. Almost none had a plan for leadership succession; they simply couldn't imagine a world in which they didn't reign supreme. Covering 20th Century-Fox, Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures, Dixon briefly introduces the studios and their respective bosses in the late… Leer más