TY - BOOK ID - 77865069 TI - Engulfed PY - 2001 SN - 0813159288 0813170931 9780813170930 9780813159287 0813122023 9780813122021 0813122023 9780813122021 0813152682 PB - Lexington University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Paramount Pictures Corporation KW - Paramount Pictures, Inc. KW - Paramount Players KW - Gulf & Western Industries. KW - Paramount Pictures (1949- ) KW - History. KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865069 AB - From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf + Western's 1966 takeover of the studio signaled the end of one era and heralded the arrival of a new way of doing business in Hollywood. Bernard Dick reconstructs the battle that culminated in the reduction of the studio to a mere corporate commodity. He then traces Paramount's devolution from free-standing studio to subsidiary -- first of Gulf + Western, then Paramo ER -