Description
Book SynopsisThis sweeping and vivid history presents the innovative studio from its initial merger to the enormous success of The Sound of Music, combining film analysis with the interconnected histories of the studio, its executives, and the industry at large.
Trade Review...Lev's consistently illuminating book joins the first rank of Hollywood studio histories. Summing up: Highly recommended. * Choice *
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Twentieth Century Fox] contributes in redressing the imbalance in American film histories that has skewed them toward the studios' creative activities on the West Coast while ignoring the East Coast financiers that kept the show going and, in many cases, guided Hollywood's politics from behind the scenes. * Journal of Modern Greek Studies *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Merger, 1935–1939
- Chapter 2: Wartime Prosperity, 1940–1945
- Chapter 3: Peak Achievements, 1946–1950
- Chapter 4: A Slow Decline, 1951–1960
- Chapter 5: Bust and Boom, 1961–1965
- Epilogue, 1966–2011
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
