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050 00 $aPN1999.P3$bD53 2001
082 00 $a384/.8/06579494$221
100 1 $aDick, Bernard F.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79145592
245 10 $aEngulfed :$bthe death of Paramount Pictures and the birth of corporate Hollywood /$cBernard F. Dick.
260 $aLexington :$bUniversity Press of Kentucky,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $ax, 269 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf + Western's 1966 takeover of the studio signaled the end of one era and heralded a new way of doing business in Hollywood.".
520 8 $a"Bernard Dick reconstructs the battle that culminated in the reduction of the studio to a mere corporate commodity. Using previously unexamined sources, he traces Paramount's devolution from free-standing studio to subsidiary - first of Gulf + Western, then Paramount Communications, and currently Viacom-CBS.".
520 8 $a"Dick portrays the new Paramount as a paradigm of today's Hollywood, where the only real art is the art of the deal. Former merchandising executives find themselves in charge of production, on the assumption that anyone who can sell a movie can make one."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aParamount Pictures Corporation$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hPN1999.P3$iD53 2001