The Hollywood Studio System

by Douglas Gomery

Book Overview

Despite being one of the biggest industries in the world, the "dream factory" that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System fills that gap. It is the first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312388438
• ISBN13: 9780312388430
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

excellent history of the studio system

Doug Gomery has written a fine book on the history of the Hollywood studio system. Whereas earlier treatments of this topic tend to neglect the period after the rise of television, Gomery does an excellent job of covering that period as well. One argument in the book that scholars will recognize as original is that the studio heads have always been quite concerned about distribution issues and that even though they no longer directly control the majority of movie screens they still have a lot to say about what gets screened and where. There is considerable detail in the book on the history of each of the major studios based on archival materials and interviews. This book should be required reading, in short, for anyone writing about Hollywood in the future.