Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System

by Ronald L. Davis

From the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, five big movie studios--Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and RKO-dominated Hollywood's film industry. This "big studio system" operated primarily as a series of assembly-line production factories. Ideally, each churned out fifty-two movies a year, enough to supply showcase theaters across the country with a new lineup each week-with profit being the overriding goal.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578066913
• ISBN13: 9781578066919
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"