Twentieth Century-Fox

Unlike any previous volume on a film studio this in-depth history is told from a corporate viewpoint covering the trends that influenced film-making profit-making incentives and the creative policies resulting in films like <I>The Grapes of Wrath The Snake Pit The Robe Cleopatra The Towering Inferno and Star Wars</I>. The book spans the birth of the movies; the rise of the studio system; the coming of sound; the Consent Decrees; the development of CinemaScope; the growth of independent production; and the video revolution.