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"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." "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." "Dick portrays the new Paramount as a paradigm of today's Hollywood, where the only…
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5 editions- Hardcover · English · 2001University Press of Kentucky · 269 pages · 9780813122021
- Other · English · 2021University Press of Kentucky · 9780813196114
- Other · English · 2021University Press of Kentucky · 266 pages · 9780813151359
- Other · English · 2021University Press of Kentucky · 280 pages · 9780813152684
- Other · English · 2014University Press of Kentucky · 280 pages · 9780813159287
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