A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 » (1st Edition)

Stephen Prince is Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. His books include The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa (1999); Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies (1998); and Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Films (1992).

"Stephen Prince's A New Pot of Gold is good at sustaining a coherent historical narrative and critical commentary on the 1980s—a period when video and film grew closer together, and when Hollywood came under the control of global capitalism."—James O. Naremore, author of Acting in the Cinema