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Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover

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Description for Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover Paperback. Series: Commerce & Mass Culture. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.

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 climate—the decline of the studios, the rise of television, and the rise of potent talent agencies like MCA—on 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 atmosphere, Mann analyzes the reflexive portraits of their altered working conditions in such films as A Face in ... Read more

 

This period saw the evolution of film production from the studio-governed system to one of entrepreneurs. Out of this new arrangement, which encouraged greater creative freedom, emerged a nascent form of independent art cinema that sowed the seeds of the Hollywood Renaissance that followed.

 

Denise Mann is associate professor of film, TV and digital media at UCLA. She is coeditor of Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer (Minnesota, 1992).

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Commerce & Mass Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816645411
SKU
V9780816645411
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