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book: A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 (History of the American Cinema, V. 10) | Stephen Prince

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	• A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 (History of the American Cinema, V. 10) Stephen Prince University of California Press, 2002 - 585 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Recommended for movie buffs and film historians.

Stephen Prince's A New Pot Of Gold details the crisis of the 1980s in American film when Hollywood faced challenges from rising costs and stagnant ticket sales. Both are excellent histories of different eras in American filmmaking.

All 10 volumes now published

All 10 volumes of this magnificent Series, founded and edited by Charles Harpole, are now (Oct. 2003) published by Scribner/Thomson/Gale and the University of California Press. The latter does the paperback versions at vastly lower prices. Movie scholars and buffs should own the whole series in hardback and will the books to their children, because this is very likely the only multi-volume series on American movies ever to be done... given publishing business these days. And, no library of any size should be without the whole Series.

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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.