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Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015032609516
Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:156908788
Author : Richard B. Jewell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520951952
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 of the most vexing periods in American social history. RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan is Born offers a vivid history of a thirty-year roller coaster of unstable finances, management battles, and artistic gambles. Richard Jewell has used unparalleled access to studio documents generally unavailable to scholars to produce the first business history of RKO, exploring its decision-making processes and illuminating the complex interplay between art and commerce during the heyday of the studio system. Behind the blockbuster films and the glamorous stars, the story of RKO often contained more drama than any of the movies it ever produced.
Author : Michael R. Pitts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786460472
King Kong and The Thing from Another World are among the most popular horror and science fiction films of all time and both were made by RKO Radio Pictures. Between 1929 and 1956, RKO released more than 140 genre features, including The Most Dangerous Game, The Phantom of Crestwood, Before Dawn, The Monkey's Paw, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, You'll Find Out, The Spiral Staircase, The Enchanted Cottage, It's a Wonderful Life, Captive Women and Killers from Space. RKO is remembered for its series of psychological horror movies produced by Val Lewton, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, The Seventh Victim and The Body Snatcher. The studio also produced films in the adventure, comedy, fantasy, mystery and western genres. They released many Walt Disney classics--Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Peter Pan--as well as several "Tarzan" features. This volume covers these movies in detail with critical and historical analysis, in-depth plot synopsis and numerous contemporary reviews.
Author : Erik Barnouw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199879175
Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor. When Erik Barnouw--premier chronicler of American broadcasting and a participant in the industry for fifty years--first undertook the project of recording its history, many viewed it as a light-weight literary task concerned mainly with "entertainment" trivia. Indeed, trivia such as that found in quiz programs do appear in the book, but Barnouw views them as part of a complex social tapestry that increasingly defines our era. To understand our century, we must fully comprehend the evolution of television and its newest extraordinary offshoots. With this fact in mind, Barnouw's new edition of Tube of Plenty explores the development and impact of the latest dramatic phases of the communications revolution. Since the first publication of this invaluable history of television and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, American culture and society, many significant changes have occurred. Assessing the importance of these developments in a new chapter, Barnouw specifically covers the decline of the three major networks, the expansion of cable and satellite television and film channels such as HBO (Home Box Office), the success of channels catering to special audiences such as ESPN (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) and MTV (Music Television), and the arrival of VCRs in America's living rooms. He also includes an appendix entitled "questions for a new millennium," which will challenge readers not only to examine the shape of television today, but also to envision its future.
Author : Richard B. Jewell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289666
Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. JewellÕs 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 studioÕs fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period, and finally collapsed in the 1950s. Drawing on hard-to-access archival materials, Jewell chronicles the period from 1942 to the companyÕs demise in 1957. Towering figures associated with the studio included Howard Hughes, Orson Welles, Charles Koerner, Val Lewton, Jane Russell, and Robert Mitchum. In addition to featuring an extraordinary cast of characters, the RKO story describes key aspects of entertainment history: HollywoodÕs collaboration with Washington, film noir, censorship, HUAC, the rise of independent film production, and the impact of television on film. Taken as a whole, JewellÕs two-volume study represents the most substantial and insightful exploration of the Hollywood studio system to date.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045602831
Author : Jamie Brotherton,Ted Okuda
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476600482
Dorothy Lee is best remembered for her screen appearances with the popular comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. She went from being a struggling vaudeville performer to the female vocalist in one of the most successful bands in the country to a star in the new-fangled "talking pictures" all within the span of a few short years. During the Great Depression, she lived a fairy-tale existence, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood luminaries and earning an income that most people could only dream of. She retired and balanced domestic life with charity work. And she saw, to her amazement, a revived interest in the movie career she had written off long ago. Based on years of conversations between the authors and Dorothy Lee, this book is an informative biography filled with revealing insights on navigating the studio system during Hollywood's Golden Age and the ephemeral nature of fame.
Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317929154
This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and TV industries are looked at, concluding that Hollywood and television had a symbiotic relationship from the start. Aspects covered include the movement of audiences, the rise of the independent producer, the introduction of colour and the emergence of network structure, cable TV and video recorders. Originally published in 1990.
Author : Erik Barnouw
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780195012590
During the iQSo's, in a frontier atmosphere of enterprise and sharp struggle, an American television system took shape. But even as it did so, itspioneers pushed beyond American borders and became programmers to scores of other nations. In its first decade United States television was already a world phenomenon. Since American radio had for some time had international ramifications, American images and sounds were radiatingfrom transmitter towers throughout the globe. They were called entertainment or news or education but were always more. They were a reflection of a growing United States involvement in the lives of other nationsan involvement of imperial scope. The role of broadcasters in this American expansion and in the era that produced it is the subject matter of The Image Empire, the last of three volumes comprising this study.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1846 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : MINN:31951D03669346G
Committee Serial No. 22. pt.1/v.1: Includes CAB report "Transcontinental Coach-Type Service Case," Nov. 7, 1951 (p. 421-515). pt.1/v. 2: Includes S. Rpt. 82-540 "Report on Role of Irregular Airlines in U.S. Air Transportation Industry," July 10, 1951 (p. 851-941). pt.2/v.1: Includes FCC Order No. 37, docket No. 5060 "Report on Chain Broadcasting," May, 1941 (p. 3533-3690) and FCC "Sixth Report and Order," Apr. 14, 1925 (p. 3785-3956). pt. 2/v. 2: Includes discussion of television industry impact on songwriter royalties. Hearings were held in NYC. pt. 2/v.3: Includes Columbia Broadcasting System report "Network Practices," June 1956 (p. 5099-5245); and Cravath, Swaine, and Moore report "Opinion of Counsel and Memorandum Concerning the Applicability of the Antitrust Laws to the Television Broadcast Activities of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.," June 4, 1956 (p. 5313-5406); and Columbia Broadcasting System report "Analysis of Senator John W. Bricker's Report Entitled "The Network Monopoly,"' June 1956 (p. 5407-5486).
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1902 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022469897
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1844 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU05274079
Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : MSU:31293009631148
Author : United States. Congress. House Patents Commmittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119516537
