A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980 1989 - Stephen Prince - Google Books

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Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found themselves targeted for acquisition by global media and…