LEADER 03645nam 22005895 450 001 9910790156603321 005 20230508162412.0 010 $a1-280-11652-8 010 $a9786613520814 010 $a0-520-95195-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520951952 035 $a(CKB)2670000000168213 035 $a(EBL)870024 035 $a(OCoLC)780425997 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000621950 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11407596 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000621950 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10639523 035 $a(PQKB)11372290 035 $a(DE-B1597)520584 035 $a(OCoLC)787847244 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520951952 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC870024 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000168213 100 $a20200424h20122012 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRKO Radio Pictures $eA Titan Is Born /$fRichard B. Jewell 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (341 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-27178-5 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList Of Illustrations --$tIntroduction --$t1. "Master Showmen Of The World": Prehistory And The Formation Of The Company --$t2. "It'S Rko- Let'S Go": The Brown-Schnitzer-Lebaron Regime (1929-1931) --$t3. "Failure On The Installment Plan, A Ticket At A Time": The Aylesworth-Kahane-Selznick Regime (1932-1933) --$t4. "All This Is Very Distressing To Me": The Aylesworth-Kahane-Cooper Regime (1933-1934) --$t5. "He Feels The Company Is Unsettled": The Aylesworth-Mcdonough-Kahane Regime (1934-1935) --$t6. "An Awfully Long Corner": The Spitz-Briskin Regime (1936-1937) --$t7. "Plaything Of Industry": The Spitz-Berman Regime (1938) --$t8. "The Company'S Best Interest": The Schaefer-Berman Regime (1939) --$t9. "Quality Pictures Are The Lifeblood Of This Business": The Schaefer-Edington Regime (1940-1941) --$t10. "Crossing Wires": The Schaefer-Breen Regime (1941-1942) --$tAppendix: "The Whole Equation Of Pictures" --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aOne of the "Big Five" studios of Hollywood's golden age, RKO is remembered today primarily for the famous films it produced, from King Kong and Citizen Kane to the Astaire-Rogers musicals. But its own story also provides a fascinating case study of film industry management during one of the most vexing periods in American social history. RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan is Born offers a vivid history of a thirty-year roller coaster of unstable finances, management battles, and artistic gambles. Richard Jewell has used unparalleled access to studio documents generally unavailable to scholars to produce the first business history of RKO, exploring its decision-making processes and illuminating the complex interplay between art and commerce during the heyday of the studio system. Behind the blockbuster films and the glamorous stars, the story of RKO often contained more drama than any of the movies it ever produced. 606 $aRKO Radio Pictures - History 606 $aRKO Radio Pictures -- History 606 $aRKO Radio Pictures 615 4$aRKO Radio Pictures - History. 615 4$aRKO Radio Pictures -- History. 615 4$aRKO Radio Pictures. 676 $a384/.80979494 700 $aJewell$b Richard B.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0554073 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790156603321 996 $aRKO Radio Pictures$93809255 997 $aUNINA