Hollywood independents [[electronic resource] ] : the postwar talent takeover / / Denise Mann
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Mann Denise
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| Titolo: |
Hollywood independents [[electronic resource] ] : the postwar talent takeover / / Denise Mann
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 384/.80979494 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion picture industry - California - Los Angeles - History |
| Motion pictures - United States - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hollywood independents |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-5374-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451584203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Commerce and mass culture series.