Hollywood independents : the postwar talent takeover

Hollywood independents : the postwar talent takeover / Denise Mann.

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 climatethe decline of the studios, the rise of televisi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mann, Denise
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Series:Commerce and mass culture series.
Subjects:
Motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles > History.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
California > Los Angeles
United States
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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