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Hardback. New. Completing the detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, this second volume charts the studio's fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period, and finally collapsed in the 1950s. It chronicles the period from 1942 to the company's demise in 1957.
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by Richard B. Jewell
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"With this engrossing second volume to his masterful business history, Richard Jewell brings the story of RKO to its tragic close. It's a smartly researched tale of malfeasance and mischief and sheer managerial madness, told with Jewell's talents for the illuminating detail as well as the revealing big picture. An essential contribution to Hollywood history."--Dana Polan, Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University
"With Slow Fade to Black, Richard Jewell completes his monumental history of RKO Pictures, which stands with Tino Balio's two-volume history of United Artists as the best 'inside account' of a Hollywood studio ever written. Making use of archival material no longer available to film scholars (or anyone else), Jewell reconstructs the operations of the studio in amazing detail. He also takes us inside the offices--and the business minds--of executives like Peter Rathvon and Charles Koerner, who guided the studio to its glory years in the 1940s, and the inimitable Howard Hughes, who drove it tragically into the ground in the 1950s."--Thomas Schatz, Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at AustinDetails
- Title Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures
- Author Richard B. Jewell
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2016-03-22
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520289666 / 0520289668
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects RKO Radio Pictures - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016004856
- Dewey Decimal Code 384.806
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