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Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood Paperback - 2012
by Wheeler Winston Dixon
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- Title Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood
- Author Wheeler Winston Dixon
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date 2012-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780813553771 / 0813553776
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture industry - California - Los, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011046940
- Dewey Decimal Code 384.809
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Paperback / softback. New. Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the ""rulers of film."" Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, and Herbert J. Yates at Republic in the dying days of their once-mighty empires. He asserts that the sheer force of personality and business acumen displayed by these moguls made the studios successful; their deaths or departures hastened the studios' collapse. Almost none had a plan for leadership succession; they simply couldn't imagine a world in which they didn't reign supreme. Covering 20th Century-Fox, Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures, Dixon briefly introduces the studios and their respective bosses in the late…
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