false 21405 0 0 157527 0812973828 9780812973822 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172266652m/157527.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172266652s/157527.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157527.The_Big_Picture_Money_and_Power_in_Hollywood 3.83 30 Epstein shows that in Hollywood, the only art that matters is the art of the deal: Major films turn huge profits not from the movies themselves but through myriad other enterprises, from video-game spin-offs and soundtracks to fast-food tie-ins, and even theme-park rides. The studios may compete for stars and Oscars, but their corporate parents view wth one another in less glamorous markets such as cable, home video, and pay-TV.
Money, though, is only a small part of the Hollywood story; the social and political milieus–power, prestige, and status–tell the rest. Alongside its remarkable financial revelations and incisive profiles of the pioneers who helped build Hollywood, The Big Picture is filled with eye-opening insider stories. If you are interested in Hollywood today and the complex and fascinating way it has evolved in order to survive, you haven’t seen the big picture until you’ve read The Big Picture.]]> 21405 3.53 60 14 2006 1432214 1400063531 9781400063536 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183541969m/1432214.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183541969s/1432214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1432214.The_Big_Picture_The_New_Logic_Of_Money_And_Power_In_Hollywood 3.00 6
In The Big Picture, acclaimed writer Edward Jay Epstein gives an unprecedented, sweeping, and thoroughly entertaining account of the real magic behind moviemaking: how the studios make their money. Epstein shows how, in Hollywood, the only art that matters is the art of the deal: major films turn huge profits, not from the movies themselves but through myriad other enterprises, such as video-game spin-offs, fast-food tie-ins, soundtracks, and even theme-park rides.

The studios may compete with one another for stars, publicity, box-office
receipts, and Oscars; their corporate parents, however, make fortunes
from cooperation (and collusion) with one another in less glamorous markets, such as cable, home video, and pay-TV.

But money is only part of the Hollywood story; the social and political milieus–power, prestige, and status–tell the rest. Alongside remarkable financial revelations, The Big Picture is filled with eye-opening true Hollywood insider stories. We learn how the promise of free cowboy boots for a producer delayed a major movie’s shooting schedule; why stars never perform their own stunts, despite what the supermarket tabloids claim; how movies intentionally shape political sensibilities, both in America and abroad; and why fifteen-year-olds dictate the kind of low-grade fare that has flooded screens across the country.

Epstein also offers incisive profiles of the pioneers, including Louis B. Mayer, who helped build Hollywood, and introduces us to the visionaries–Walt Disney, Akio Morita, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Ross, Sumner Redstone, David Sarnoff–power brokers who, by dint of innovation and deception, created and control the media that mold our lives. If you are interested in Hollywood today and the complex and fascinating way it has evolved in order to survive, you haven’t seen the big picture until you’ve read The Big Picture.]]> 21405 3.53 60 14 2005 1213118 0070195390 9780070195394 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190448357m/1213118.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190448357s/1213118.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1213118.Legend_The_Secret_World_of_Lee_Harvey_Oswald 2.57 7 21405 3.53 60 14 1978 1123843 0671412892 9780671412890 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1123843.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Diamonds_The_Shattering_of_a_Brilliant_Illusion 4.00 3 21405 3.53 60 14 1982 189749 1566633001 9781566633000 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172550121m/189749.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172550121s/189749.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189749.News_from_Nowhere 3.33 3 21405 3.53 60 14 2000 38061 0756765382 9780756765385 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38061.Dossier_The_Secret_History_of_Armand_Hammer 4.00 2 21405 3.53 60 14 2001 521491 0517075725 9780517075722 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/521491.Deception_The_Invisible_War_Between_the_KGB_the_CIA 3.00 2 21405 3.53 60 14 1991 6772566 1933633840 9781933633848 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6772566-the-hollywood-economist 5.00 1 21405 3.53 60 14 2010 6593141 B00005VPKU 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6593141-counterplot 4.00 1 Size: Standard Book Size.
The author, a student of the various conspiracies of John F. Kennedy's assassination, was intrigued when the investigation by New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, was made public. Now, (1969), the author believes that Garrison's investigation was flawed. The reasons for his allegations are the basis for this book. 192 pages, notes and index.]]> 21405 3.53 60 14 1969 6543696 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6543696-the-big-picture 4.00 1
In The Big Picture, acclaimed writer Edward Jay Epstein gives an unprecedented, sweeping, and thoroughly entertaining account of the real magic behind moviemaking: how the studios make their money. Epstein shows how, in Hollywood, the only art that matters is the art of the deal: major films turn huge profits, not from the movies themselves but through myriad other enterprises, such as video-game spin-offs, fast-food tie-ins, soundtracks, and even theme-park rides.

The studios may compete with one another for stars, publicity, box-office
receipts, and Oscars; their corporate parents, however, make fortunes
from cooperation (and collusion) with one another in less glamorous markets, such as cable, home video, and pay-TV.

But money is only part of the Hollywood story; the social and political milieus–power, prestige, and status–tell the rest. Alongside remarkable financial revelations, The Big Picture is filled with eye-opening true Hollywood insider stories. We learn how the promise of free cowboy boots for a producer delayed a major movie’s shooting schedule; why stars never perform their own stunts, despite what the supermarket tabloids claim; how movies intentionally shape political sensibilities, both in America and abroad; and why fifteen-year-olds dictate the kind of low-grade fare that has flooded screens across the country.

Epstein also offers incisive profiles of the pioneers, including Louis B. Mayer, who helped build Hollywood, and introduces us to the visionaries–Walt Disney, Akio Morita, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Ross, Sumner Redstone, David Sarnoff–power brokers who, by dint of innovation and deception, created and control the media that mold our lives. If you are interested in Hollywood today and the complex and fascinating way it has evolved in order to survive, you haven’t seen the big picture until you’ve read The Big Picture.


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