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GENIUS OF THE SYSTEM

Thomas Schatz

Examines the rise and fall of Hollywood from its beginnings in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s

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The book focuses on the business side of the film industry, specifically from the 1920s to the 1950s, showing how creative and business aspects of the industry often collaborated.

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And I was very much inspired by a book that I think you know as well, right? The Genius of the System by Thomas Schaff.

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The book focuses on the business side of the film industry, specifically from the 1920s to the 1950s, showing how creative and business aspects of the industry often collaborated.

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And I was very much inspired by a book that I think you know as well, right? The Genius of the System by Thomas Schaff.

And that book is a remarkable book in my opinion because it really takes the business side of the film business back from the 20s to say the 50s and really elevates the business side of the business and shows how a lot of what we understood to be the creative part of the business really was a collaboration between creative people and business people.

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