Power Surge
Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah
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“[An] impressive work . . . an entertaining pop history"―The Wall Street Journal
From the author of The Genius of the System, the classic tale of Hollywood’s first golden age, comes the story of its last.
Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry rediscovered its creative energy, and indie went mainstream without losing its edge.
Between 1989 and 2004, all the old studios either merged with other media giants or were swallowed up by even bigger diversified behemoths, leading to an infusion of money and fast-tracking the digital revolution. Yet even as CGI and piles of cash fueled a new breed of blockbusters―Batman and Titanic, Toy Story and The Lord of the Rings―an indie ethos permeated the industry. And at the crossroads of commodification and aesthetic vision, auteurs ranging from Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino to Sofia Coppola and Ang Lee became household names.
Power Surge traces these trajectories, which increasingly clashed and commingled during the 1990s and early 2000s, resulting in nothing short of a new golden age―and perhaps the last gasp of the century-old studio system.
> From the same author:
The Genius of the System (2010)
Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
Boom & Bust, American Cinema in the 1940s (1999)
History of American Cinema vol.6
Subject: History of Cinema
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Hollywood's Lost Backlot (2018)
40 Acres of Glamour and Mystery
The Glamour Factory (2018)
Inside Hollywood's Big Studio System
Death of the Moguls (2012)
The End of Classical Hollywood
The Story of Hollywood (2011)
An Illustrated History
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