Stephen Prince, "A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989"
Stephen Prince, "A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989"
(History of the American Cinema)
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons | 1999 | ISBN: 068480493X | English | PDF | 510 pages | 26.88 Mb
(History of the American Cinema)
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons | 1999 | ISBN: 068480493X | English | PDF | 510 pages | 26.88 Mb
An investigation into the genesis and development of American film and the American film industry, the text chronicles the tumultous 1980's. This book looks at the effects of video-cassettes and cable television on Hollywood, and the idiosyncratic visions of newcomers like Spike Lee and Tim Burton.
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"; and, "Body Heat".
"Prince's book pushes us to reconceptualize the interactions of economics and ideology…. It evokes and invokes the richness of filmmaking practices-both mainstream and alternative-even as it gives a harsh and perhaps tragic image of a cultural form, the cinema, losing its specificity and even identity in the vast synergistic networks of control at the end of the twentieth century."-Dana Polan, Film Quarterly; "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
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).
Stephen Prince, "A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989"
