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RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born
Richard B. Jewell
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Description for RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born
Hardback. 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. This title offers a history of a roller coaster of RKO's unstable finances, management battles, and artistic gambles. Num Pages: 340 pages, 24 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520271784
SKU
V9780520271784
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About Richard B. Jewell
Richard B. Jewell is Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of The Golden Age of Hollywood, and The RKO Story, among others.
Reviews for RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born
"Jewell not only makes great use of this primary material, but presents a clear, fair-minded narrative that puts the facts into proper context." Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy "The author is clear and candid... A readable, thought-provoking analysis."
S.R. Kozloff, Vassar College Choice
S.R. Kozloff, Vassar College Choice