Runaway Hollywood : internationalizing postwar production and location shooting / Daniel Steinhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinhart, Daniel, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--Economic aspects--United States.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture locations.

Motion picture industry--Economic aspects.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Summary:

"After World War II, as Hollywood faced a changing industrial landscape, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, where they capitalized on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and striking locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon "runaway" production to underscore the dispersal of employment opportunities. Examining the late 1940s to early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood details these changes, showing how film companies exported production around the world and the effect of this move on visual style. It uses an array of historical materials to trace the industry's creation of a more global production operation that intermixed craft practices and aesthetic ideas from Hollywood and abroad to produce movies with a greater global scope"--Provided by publisher.

"After World War II, as Hollywood faced a changing industrial landscape, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, where they capitalized on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and striking locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon "runaway" production to underscore the dispersal of employment opportunities. Examining the late 1940s to early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood details these changes, showing how film companies exported production around the world and the effect of this move on visual style. It uses an array of historical materials to trace the industry's creation of a more global production operation that intermixed craft practices and aesthetic ideas from Hollywood and abroad"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue : movie ruins

Introduction : "Have talent, will travel"

Part I. Foundations. All the world's a studio : the design and debates of postwar "runaway" productions

Case study : tax evasion, red-baiting, and the white whale : Moby Dick (1956)

Part II. Production. London, Rome, Paris : the infrastructure of Hollywood's mode of international production

Lumière, camera, azione! : the personnel and practices of Hollywood's mode of international production

Case study : when in Rome : Roman Holiday (1953)

Part III. Style. A cook's tour of the world : the art of international location shooting

Case study : mental spaces and cinematic places : Lust for Life (1956)

Epilogue : sunken movie relics

Appendix : Hollywood's international productions, 1948-1962.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-267) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Steinhart, Daniel, 1977- Runaway Hollywood.

ISBN:

9780520298637

0520298632

9780520298644

0520298640

OCLC:

1041245456