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Hollywood Independent: How the Mirisch Company Changed Cinema de Dr. Paul Kerr

Hollywood Independent: How the Mirisch Company Changed Cinema

Autor Dr. Paul Kerr
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 apr 2023
Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the names of a new generation of stars including Steve McQueen and Shirley MacLaine, as well as banking on the reputations of established auteurs like Billy Wilder, they were also pioneers in dealing with controversial new themes with films about race (In the Heat of the Night), gender (Some Like it Hot) and sexuality (The Children's Hour), devising new ways of working with film franchises (The Magnificent Seven, The Pink Panther and In the Heat of the Night spun off 7 Mirisch sequels between them) and cinematic cycles, investing in adaptations of bestsellers and Broadway hits, exploiting frozen funds abroad and exploring so-called runaway productions. The Mirisch Company bridges the gap between the end of the studio system by about 1960 and the emergence of a new cinema in the mid-1970s, dominated by the Movie Brats.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501336751
ISBN-10: 1501336754
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Illustrations

Introduction
1. Prequel: What did you do in the war, daddy? The Mirisch brothers before entering production
2. Prequel: The first time: The Mirisches at Monogram, Allied Artists and Moulin Productions
3. How to succeed in business without really trying: Towards a corporate history of the Mirisch companies
4. The organization: Corporate culture and the Mirisch company as 'author'
5. "This book is all that I need": Adaptation as aesthetic and business strategy at The Mirisch Company
6. Same time next year or the return of the seven: The Mirisch Company's sequels and series for cinema and television
7. 'You can't kill a squadron': The Mirisch Second World War film cycle
8. The border jumpers: 'Lend lease in reverse' - The Mirisch Company and transnational cinema
9. The children's hour - Why the Mirisch brothers never worked with the movie brats
10. Midway: Between blockbusters and television - The Mirisch Company after United Artists
11. Conclusion - Cast a giant shadow

Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

Often overshadowed by United Artists, the Mirisch Company never received the scholarly attention it so richly deserved for having produced some of the best known films that United Artists released in the postwar era. Paul Kerr's new book fills this gap spectacularly! Not only is Hollywood Independent a tour-de-force account of a company's major contribution to Hollywood cinema but also a book that revises and rewrites American film history. This a major achievement!
Paul Kerr's Hollywood Independent makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the complicated transition from the postwar classical studio era to the New Hollywood of the 1970s. Kerr combines insightful scrutiny of corporate records, contemporaneous trade press, and the scholarly literature with original analyses of dozens of individual films, both famous and forgotten. Hollywood Independent uses the history of the Mirisch brothers, Hollywood's most prominent independent producers, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions regarding this important but neglected moment in cinema history. Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Kerr's book offers a rich and convincing account of the lasting changes in cinematic style, thematic content, and industry practices pioneered by the Mirisch company, changes crucial in understanding the past half century of American cinema.