Hollywood independents : the postwar talent takeover / Denise Mann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, Denise.

Series:

Commerce and mass culture series.

Commerce and mass culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5374-7

OCLC:

476156610