A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989

History of the American Cinema #10

by Stephen Prince

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

Platoon

Do the Right Thing

Blue Velvet

Diner

E.T.

Batman

Body Heat

Genres: Film, Nonfiction, History, Media Tie In

586 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Stephen Prince teaches film history, criticism, and theory at Virginia Tech’s School of Performing Arts . He received his Ph.D from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Reviews

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was entirely too technical for me and was honestly just a bore to read. Granted I had to read it for a class and hardly ever enjoy doing that, but Prince just relies too heavily on statistics to prove his point.