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American Auteur Cinema: the Last – Or First – Great Picture Show 37 Thomas Elsaesser
For many lovers of film, American cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s – dubbed the New Hollywood – has remained a Golden Age. AND KING HORWATH PICTURE SHOW ELSAESSER, AMERICAN GREAT THE LAST As the old studio system gave way to a new gen- FILMFILM FFILMILM eration of American auteurs, directors such as Monte Hellman, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Rafel- CULTURE CULTURE son, Martin Scorsese, but also Robert Altman, IN TRANSITION IN TRANSITION James Toback, Terrence Malick and Barbara Loden helped create an independent cinema that gave America a different voice in the world and a dif- ferent vision to itself. The protests against the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement and feminism saw the emergence of an entirely dif- ferent political culture, reflected in movies that may not always have been successful with the mass public, but were soon recognized as audacious, creative and off-beat by the critics. Many of the films TheThe have subsequently become classics. The Last Great Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of this American cinema of the 1970s, some- LaLastst Great Great times referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more also recognised as the first of several ‘New Hollywoods’, without which the cin- American ema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spiel- American berg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not have come into being. PPictureicture NEWNEW HOLLYWOODHOLLYWOOD ISBN 90-5356-631-7 CINEMACINEMA ININ ShowShow EDITEDEDITED BY BY THETHE -
Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio
University of Kentucky UKnowledge Film and Media Studies Arts and Humanities 1992 Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio Bernard F. Dick Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Thanks to the University of Kentucky Libraries and the University Press of Kentucky, this book is freely available to current faculty, students, and staff at the University of Kentucky. Find other University of Kentucky Books at uknowledge.uky.edu/upk. For more information, please contact UKnowledge at [email protected]. Recommended Citation Dick, Bernard F., "Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio" (1992). Film and Media Studies. 8. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_film_and_media_studies/8 COLUMBIA PICTURES This page intentionally left blank COLUMBIA PICTURES Portrait of a Studio BERNARD F. DICK Editor THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY Copyright © 1992 by The University Press of Kentucky Paperback edition 2010 Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine University, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. All rights reserved. Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008 www.kentuckypress.com Cataloging-in-Publication Data for the hardcover edition is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 978-0-8131-3019-4 (pbk: alk. paper) This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. -
Copyright by Alisa Perren 2004
Copyright by Alisa Perren 2004 The Dissertation Committee for Alisa Hayley Perren Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Deregulation, Integration and a New Era of Media Conglomerates: The Case of Fox, 1985-1995 Committee: Thomas Schatz, Supervisor Richard Lewis Neil Nehring Horace Newcomb Sharon Strover S. Craig Watkins Deregulation, Integration and a New Era of Media Conglomerates: The Case of Fox, 1985-1995 by Alisa Hayley Perren, B.A., M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of philosophy The University of Texas at Austin August 2004 Dedication For my parents Acknowledgements The support provided by my family and friends made the dissertation- writing process far less painful. Particular thanks go to Caroline Frick, Karen Gustafson, Lisa Hartenberger, Sunny Nguyen, Jennie Phillips, Gabe Rupertus, Valerie Wee, and Kate and Alex Wurm. Their food sustained me and their flowers cheered me up. I am so grateful for their willingness to listen to me talk on and on about my research. Thanks also to Tanya Chmielewski, Jennifer Holt, Anh Nguyen, and Michael Tolfo. The feedback and guidance provided by Richard Lewis, Neil Nehring, Sharon Strover and Craig Watkins is greatly appreciated. Their comments have been helpful and will continue to be used as I further develop my ideas about Fox and the media industries. Special thanks to Horace Newcomb for reading various drafts of this project and suggesting ways to refine my argument. This project would not exist without the support of Thomas Schatz. -
Liberty Magazine January 1994.Pdf Mime Type
How Clinton's Plan Will Ruin January 1994 Vol. 7, No.2 $4.00 Your Health ~~~3« 11\------------------.. 11111\E~"G-iv-em-e-a~--at-·n-my-h-oll-ow-tr-te-.,a-c-rus-to-ifb-re-&l-a-nd-L-ib-erty-!-"::.A-!e-xa-nd-er-P-op.........e 1 o ~-----------------' Silver Coin Breakthrough! Mint State 1964 Kennedy Silver Half Dollars •• • Less than $2.00 per coinl The Kennedy Half Dollar of 1964 was the last half dollar issued for circulation by the U.S. Mint made from high grade 90% silver. As such it has been prized by investors and collectors, trading at prices as high as $13.00 each ... Today, you can buy them for as little as $1.95 per coin! Last of the Silver Coins! coin." It thus joins such famous rarities issued one year only, as On June 3, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson sent a historic the 1909 "V.D.B." Lincoln cent, the 1883 "No Cents" Liberty message to Congress: the United States would no longer mint nickel, the 1796 "Small Eagle" quarter, the 1907 "High-Relief" coins of 90% pure silver. Thirty-five years of inflation had driv- St Gaudens $20 ... all treasured by collectors as one year type en down the value of the U.S. dollar to the point ~here the coins! Treasury could not afford to make our coins ofhigh grade silver. That meant that the 1964 half dollars, featuring the new Ken Huge Meltdown! nedy design, would be the last u.s. half dollar of high grade sil The initial mintage of the 1964·Kennedy half dollar was quite ver ever issued.