num_pages: 586
description: Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found themselves targeted for acquisition by global media and communications companies. This volume examines the decade's transformation that took Hollywood from the production of theatrical film to media software.Some of the films discussed in this volume PlatoonDo the Right ThingBlue VelvetDinerE.T.BatmanBody Heat
language: English
title: A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989
titlecomplete: A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989
genres: Film, Media Tie In, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 22
series: History of the American Cinema
publisher: University of California Press