Slow Fade to Black : The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures /

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Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. Jewell's richly detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, published in 2012. This second volume charts the studio's fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar peri...

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Autor principal: Jewell, Richard B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]
Temas:
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. "Showmanship in Place of Genius": The Rathvon-Koerner Regime (1942-1945)
  • 2. "RKO's Spirit Encircles Globe": The Rathvon Regime (1946)
  • 3. "The Screen Has Come of Age": The Rathvon-Schary Regime (1947-1948)
  • 4. "There Is a Lot of Life in the Old Place Yet": The Hughes-Depinet-Rogell Regime (1948-1950)
  • 5. "The Predictable Unpredictable": The Hughes-Depinet Regime (1950-1952)
  • 6. "The Shortest and Most Bizarre Period of Studio Ownership in Film Industry History": The Stolkin Interregnum (1952)
  • 7. "Incompetence or Indifference": The Hughes-Grainger Regime (1953-1955)
  • 8. "He Had a Great Sense Of Entitlement, Mr. Hughes": The Six-Foot-Four Enigma (1948-1955)
  • 9. "An Untoward Turn of Events": The O'Neil-O'Shea-Dozier Regime (1955-1957)
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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