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"In this accessible and engaging history of the moguls who made the studios successful through sheer force of personality, Dixon does a terrific job of getting inside the heads of the bosses who built their studios into major entertainment factories." -- Barry Keith Grant * Brock University *
"In this book, written with his usual critical acumen, Wheeler Winston Dixon gives a lucid and penetrating account of the men who ran the old Hollywood studio system and of the ultimate decline and fall of their empires." -- Steven Shaviro * Wayne State University *
"Death of the Moguls is an immensely readable, deeply informed survey of a mythic moment in American moviemaking." * Film Criticism *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. The Postwar Collapse
2. White Fang at Columbia
3. Z for Zanuck
4. Mayer's MGM
5. Zukor and Paramount
6. The Major Minors
7. Universal Goes Corporate
8. That's All, Folks: Jack Warner's Lost Kingdom
Works Cited and Consulted
Index

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/08/2012
      ISBN13: 9780813553771, 978-0813553771
      ISBN10: 0813553776

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "In this accessible and engaging history of the moguls who made the studios successful through sheer force of personality, Dixon does a terrific job of getting inside the heads of the bosses who built their studios into major entertainment factories." -- Barry Keith Grant * Brock University *
      "In this book, written with his usual critical acumen, Wheeler Winston Dixon gives a lucid and penetrating account of the men who ran the old Hollywood studio system and of the ultimate decline and fall of their empires." -- Steven Shaviro * Wayne State University *
      "Death of the Moguls is an immensely readable, deeply informed survey of a mythic moment in American moviemaking." * Film Criticism *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Prologue
      1. The Postwar Collapse
      2. White Fang at Columbia
      3. Z for Zanuck
      4. Mayer's MGM
      5. Zukor and Paramount
      6. The Major Minors
      7. Universal Goes Corporate
      8. That's All, Folks: Jack Warner's Lost Kingdom
      Works Cited and Consulted
      Index

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