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

“[An] impressive work . . . an entertaining pop history"—The Wall Street Journal

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 behemot...