Davis Ronald L. Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System 9781578066919

Варианты приобретения

Цена: 3960.00р.
Кол-во:
Наличие: Поставка под заказ. Есть в наличии на складе поставщика.
Склад Америка: Есть
При оформлении заказа до:
Ориентировочная дата поставки:
При условии наличия книги у поставщика.

Добавить в корзину

в Мои желания

Автор: Davis Ronald L.
Название: Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System
ISBN: 9781578066919
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Кино, кинематография

Киноиндустрия

ISBN-10: 1578066913
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 239
Вес: 0.42 кг.
Дата издания: 14.04.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 227 x 153 x 19
Рейтинг:
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание:

From the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, five big movie studios-Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and RKO-dominated Hollywoods film industry. This big studio system operated primarily as a series of assembly-line production factories. Ideally, each churned out fifty-two movies a year, enough to supply showcase theaters across the country with a new lineup each week-with profit being the overriding goal.

Of this era, veteran screenwriter Julius Epstein (Casablanca) said: It was not called the motion picture industry for nothing. It] was like working at belts in a factory.

Studios assigned the majority of the lower-tier screenplays to directors under long-term contract and expected them to stick to the script and keep productions within the budget. These filmmakers, known as house directors, often made films quickly, inexpensively, and with limited resources. Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System collects twelve interviews with house directors from this era, all conducted by the author during the 1980s. These previously unpublished interviews provide a clear picture of how the big studio system operated, as told by those who knew it best.

Despite limitations, house directors sometimes made enduring film classics, such as Charles Walterss Easter Parade, Henry Kosters The Bishops Wife, George Sidneys The Three Musketeers, and Vincent Shermans The Hasty Heart. In these interviews the filmmakers talk candidly about working with such superstars as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Richard Burton, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Esther Williams, and Lana Turner.

Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System, Davis Ronald L.