Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah by Schatz, Thomas
Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah by Schatz, Thomas

Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah

From the author of The Genius of the System, the classic tale of Hollywood's first golden age,...
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Author: Thomas Schatz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah by Schatz, Thomas

Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah

$39.54
Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah by Schatz, Thomas

Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah

$39.54
Author: Thomas Schatz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From the author of The Genius of the System, the classic tale of Hollywood's first golden age, comes the story of its last.

Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry rediscovered its creative energy, and indie went mainstream without losing its edge.

Between 1989 and 2004, all the old studios either merged with other media giants or were swallowed up by even bigger diversified behemoths, leading to an infusion of money and fast-tracking the digital revolution. Yet even as CGI and piles of cash fueled a new breed of blockbusters--Batman and Titanic, Toy Story and The Lord of the Rings--an indie ethos permeated the industry. And at the crossroads of commodification and aesthetic vision, auteurs ranging from Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino to Sofia Coppola and Ang Lee became household names.

Power Surge traces these trajectories, which increasingly clashed and commingled during the 1990s and early 2000s, resulting in nothing short of a new golden age--and perhaps the last gasp of the century-old studio system.

Author: Thomas Schatz
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 552
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780520415805


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2026
Publishers Weekly 04/06/2026
Library Journal 04/10/2026 pg. 1

About the Author
Thomas Schatz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era, ranked by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the twenty greatest film books.
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