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Download PDF by Richard B. Jewell: Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures

By Richard B. Jewell

ISBN-10: 0520289668

ISBN-13: 9780520289666

ISBN-10: 0520289676

ISBN-13: 9780520289673

Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. Jewell’s richly specified two-part historical past of the RKO movie studio, which begun with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, released in 2012. This moment quantity charts the studio’s fortunes, which peaked in the course of global battle II, declined within the postwar interval, and eventually collapsed within the Nineteen Fifties. Drawing on hard-to-access archival fabrics, Jewell chronicles the interval from 1942 to the company’s loss of life in 1957. Towering figures linked to the studio incorporated Howard Hughes, Orson Welles, Charles Koerner, Val Lewton, Jane Russell, and Robert Mitchum. as well as that includes a unprecedented solid of characters, the RKO tale describes key facets of leisure heritage: Hollywood’s collaboration with Washington, movie noir, censorship, HUAC, the increase of self sufficient movie construction, and the effect of tv on movie. Taken as a complete, Jewell’s two-volume research represents the main massive and insightful exploration of the Hollywood studio procedure to date.

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