TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dick,Bernard F.
TI  - Engulfed: the death of Paramount Pictures and the birth of corporate Hollywood 
SN  - 0813170931
AV  - PN1999.P3 D53 2001eb
U1  - 384/.8/06579494 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Paramount Pictures Corporation
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - Media & Communications
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Telecommunications
KW  - gtt
KW  - Filmindustrie
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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