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846736
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Mann, Denise.
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| Title & Author
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Hollywood independents : : the postwar talent takeover /\ Denise Mann.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Commerce and mass culture series
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1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0816653747
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: 9780816653744
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081664540X
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0816645418
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9780816645404
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9780816645411
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-298) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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 television, and the rise of potent talent agencies like MCAon 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.
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Motion picture industry-- California-- Los Angeles-- History.
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Motion pictures-- United States-- History.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- Media Communications.
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Motion picture industry.
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Motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- History Criticism.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Telecommunications.
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California, Los Angeles.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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384/.80979494
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PN1993.5.U65M29 2008eb
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