RKO Radio Pictures : A Titan Is Born /
One of the "Big Five" studios of Hollywood's golden age, RKO is remembered today primarily for the famous films it produced, from King Kong and Citizen Kane to the Astaire-Rogers musicals. But its own story also provides a fascinating case study of film industry management during one...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Introduction; 1. "Master Showmen of the World": Prehistory and the Formation of the Company; 2. "It's RKO--Let's Go": The Brown-Schnitzer-LeBaron Regime (1929-1931); 3. "Failure on the Installment Plan, a Ticket at a Time": The Aylesworth-Kahane-Selznick Regime (1932-1933); 4. "All this is Very Distressing to me": The Aylesworth-Kahane-Cooper Regime (1933-1934); 5. "He Feels the Company is Unsettled": The Aylesworth-McDonough-Kahane Regime (1934-1935).
- 6. "An awfully long corner": The Spitz-Briskin Regime (1936-1937)7. "Plaything of Industry": The Spitz-Berman Regime (1938); 8. "The Company's Best Interest": The Schaefer-Berman Regime (1939); 9. "Quality pictures are the Lifeblood of this Business": The Schaefer- Edington Regime (1940-1941); 10. "Crossing Wires": The Schaefer- Breen Regime (1941-1942); Appendix: "The Whole Equation of Pictures"; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.