Engulfed : the death of Paramount Pictures and the birth of corporate Hollywood /
Dick, Bernard F.
Engulfed : the death of Paramount Pictures and the birth of corporate Hollywood / Bernard F. Dick. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001. - 1 online resource (x, 269 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Mountain Glory; 2 Mountain Gloom; 3 Barbarians at the Spanish Gate; 4 Charlie's Boys; 5 The Italian Connection; 6 The Diller Days; 7 Goodbye, Charlie; 8 Sumner at the Summit; Epilogue; End Titles; Notes; Index.
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Annotation " From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. 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 the arrival of 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. He then 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. CEOs exit in disgrace from one studio only to emerge in triumph at another. Corporate raiders vie for power and control through the buying and selling of film libraries, studio property, television stations, book publishers, and more. The history of Paramount is filled with larger-than-life people, including Billy Wilder, Adolph Zukor, Sumner Redstone, Sherry Lansing, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and more.
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English.
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9780813122021
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Paramount Pictures Corporation--History.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.--History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Telecommunications.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Filmindustrie.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
PN1999.P3 / D53 2001eb
384/.8/06579494
Engulfed : the death of Paramount Pictures and the birth of corporate Hollywood / Bernard F. Dick. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001. - 1 online resource (x, 269 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Mountain Glory; 2 Mountain Gloom; 3 Barbarians at the Spanish Gate; 4 Charlie's Boys; 5 The Italian Connection; 6 The Diller Days; 7 Goodbye, Charlie; 8 Sumner at the Summit; Epilogue; End Titles; Notes; Index.
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Annotation " From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. 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 the arrival of 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. He then 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. CEOs exit in disgrace from one studio only to emerge in triumph at another. Corporate raiders vie for power and control through the buying and selling of film libraries, studio property, television stations, book publishers, and more. The history of Paramount is filled with larger-than-life people, including Billy Wilder, Adolph Zukor, Sumner Redstone, Sherry Lansing, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and more.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
0813170931 (electronic bk.) 9780813170930 (electronic bk.) 9780813159287 (electronic bk.) 0813159288 (electronic bk.) 0813122023 9780813122021 (alk. paper) (alk. paper)
9780813122021
90F4E09C-45C7-4007-A334-352007F5DF8A OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Paramount Pictures Corporation--History.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.--History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Telecommunications.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Filmindustrie.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
PN1999.P3 / D53 2001eb
384/.8/06579494