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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814545503321

Autore

Mann Denise

Titolo

Hollywood independents : the postwar talent takeover / / Denise Mann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-5374-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Commerce and mass culture series

Disciplina

384/.80979494

Soggetti

Motion picture industry - California - Los Angeles - History

Motion pictures - United States - History

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

Charting a path of independence in a corporate wilderness -- Backstage dramas : MCA and the talent takeover -- The gray flannel independent : new Hollywood's new organization man -- Self-referentiality : mediating TV's incursion into Hollywood and the home -- Two emergent cinemas : art and blockbuster -- Elia Kazan : caught between HUAC and the "new Hollywood" -- A face in the crowd : reframing reflexivity -- When talent becomes management : the making of The sweet smell of success -- Sweet smell of success : punishing privileges of the professional-managerial class.

Sommario/riassunto

Hollywood Independents explores the crucial period from 1948 to 1962 when independent film producers first became key components of the modern corporate entertainment industry. Denise Mann examines the impact of the radically changed filmmaking climateÑthe decline of the studios, the rise of television, and the rise of potent talent agencies like MCAÑon a group of prominent talent-turned-producers, including Burt Lancaster, Joseph Mankiewicz, Elia Kazan, and Billy Wilder. In order to show how these newly independent filmmakers negotiated through an increasingly fraught, reactionary creative at