A New Pot of Gold

Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980–1989

Stephen Prince

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University of California Press
15 March 2002

Films, movies & cinema; Cinema industry

Series: History of the American Cinema

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

Body Heat

By: Stephen Prince
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 10
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.043kg
ISBN: 9780520232662
ISBN 10: 0520232666
Series: History of the American Cinema
Pages: 585
Publication Date: 15 March 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction Contents 1 The Industry at the Dawn of the Decade 2 Merger Mania 3 The Brave New Ancillary World 4 Independents, Packaging, and Inflationary:Pressure in 1980s Hollywood Justin Wyatt 5 The Talent Oligopoly 6 The Filmmakers 7 Genres and Production Cycles 8 Movies and Morality 9 American Documentary in the 1980s Carl Plantinga 10 Experimental Cinema in the 1980s Scott MacDonald Appendices: APPENDIX 1 LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS APPENDIX 2 TOP BOX-OFFICE FILMS OF THE 1980s APPENDIX :3 MAJOR ACADEMY AWARDS, 1980-1988 APPENDIX 4 THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY 45:3 Notes Bibliography Picture Sources General Index Index of Films

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).

Reviews for A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980–1989

""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