Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures

by Richard B. Jewell and Richard B Jewell

Book Overview

Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. Jewell's richly detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, published in 2012. This second volume charts the studio's fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period, and finally collapsed in the 1950s. Drawing on hard-to-access archival materials, Jewell chronicles the period from 1942 to the company's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520289668
• ISBN13: 9780520289666
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"