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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461166503321

Autore

Kraszewski Jon

Titolo

The new entrepreneurs [[electronic resource] ] : an institutional history of television anthology writers / / Jon Kraszewski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-10972-7

9786613109729

0-8195-7103-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Wesleyan film

Disciplina

809.2/25 0925

Soggetti

Television authorship - United States

Television plays, American - History and criticism

Television - Production and direction - United States

Television programs - Economic aspects - United States

Television programs - Social aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Between the television and book publishing industries : anthology writers and their struggle for authorial identities -- Between the television and theater industries : representations of race in Rod Serling's "Noon on doomsday" -- Between the television and motion picture industries : Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty" as art cinema -- New strategies for entrepreneurship : Reginald Rose, The defenders, and the 1960s television industry -- A new zone of production? Rod Serling's attempt to redefine the role of the writer in the 1960s television industry.

Sommario/riassunto

How television writers thwarted the constraints of corporate culture in the 1950's and flourished