Columbia Pictures : portrait of a studio / Bernard F. Dick, editor.

Contributor(s):

Dick, Bernard F

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813149615
0813149614

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Columbia Pictures.DDC classification:

384/.8/06579497 20

LOC classification:

PN1999.C57 C64 1991

Other classification:

24.32

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Contents:

From the brothers Cohn to Sony Corp. / Bernard F. Dick -- Frank Capra at Columbia : necessity and invention / Charles Maland -- Columbia's screwball comedies : wine, women and wisecracks / Joy Gould Boyum -- Film noir at Columbia : fashion and innovation / J.P. Telotte -- Rita Hayworth at Columbia : the fabrication of a star / William Vincent -- Judy Holliday : the star and the studio / Ruth Prigozy -- An interview with Daniel Taradash : from Harvard to Hollywood / Bernard F. Dick -- On the waterfront : "Like It Ain't Part of America" / Adam J. Sorkin -- Anatomy of a murder : life and art in the courtroom / Jeanine Basinger -- Columbia and the counterculture : trilogy of defeat / Sybil Delgaudio -- Taxi driver : bringing home the war / Les Keyser -- Lawrence of Arabia, 1962, 1989 : "It Looks Damn Good" / Gene D. Philips -- A soldier's story : a paradigm for justice / Jim Welsh -- The last emperor : a subject-in-the-making / Janice Mouton.

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Summary: The recent 3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's worst scandals under David Begelman, as well as ownership by Coca-Cola and David Puttnam's misguided attempt to bring back the studio's glory days. Columbia Pictures traces Columbia's history from its beginnings as the CBC Film Sales Company (nicknamed ""Corned Beef and Cabbage"") through the regimes of Harry Cohn and his successors, and concludes with a vivid portrait of today's corporate Hollywood, with its investment bankers, entertainment lawyers, agen

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Filmography: pages 231-285.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The recent 3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's worst scandals under David Begelman, as well as ownership by Coca-Cola and David Puttnam's misguided attempt to bring back the studio's glory days. Columbia Pictures traces Columbia's history from its beginnings as the CBC Film Sales Company (nicknamed ""Corned Beef and Cabbage"") through the regimes of Harry Cohn and his successors, and concludes with a vivid portrait of today's corporate Hollywood, with its investment bankers, entertainment lawyers, agen

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