A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980–1989 (History of the American Cinema) (Volume 10) - Softcover

Prince, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520232666 ISBN 13: 9780520232662

Publisher: University of California Press, 2002

Synopsis

Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found themselves targeted for acquisition by global media and communications companies. This volume examines the decade's transformation that took Hollywood from the production of theatrical film to media software.

Some of the films discussed in this volume include:

Platoon

Do the Right Thing

Blue Velvet

Diner

E.T.

Batman

Body Heat

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Stephen Prince's A New Pot of Gold is good at sustaining a coherent historical narrative and critical commentary on the 1980s--a period when video and film grew closer together, and when Hollywood came under the control of global capitalism."―James O. Naremore, author of Acting in the Cinema

About the Author:

Stephen Prince is Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. His books include The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa (1999); Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies (1998); and Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Films (1992).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0520232666
• ISBN 13: 9780520232662
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 586