Runaway Hollywood

Author : Daniel Steinhart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520970694

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Runaway Hollywood by Daniel Steinhart Pdf

After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and appealing locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon “runaway” production to underscore the outsourcing of employment opportunities. Examining this period of transition from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood shows how film companies exported production around the world and the effect this conversion had on industry practices and visual style. In this fascinating account, Daniel Steinhart uses an array of historical materials to trace the industry’s creation of a more international production operation that merged filmmaking practices from Hollywood and abroad to produce movies with a greater global scope.

Author : Joshua Gleich,Lawrence Webb
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813586274

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Hollywood on Location by Joshua Gleich,Lawrence Webb Pdf

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this production practice has been scattered across the margins of larger American film histories. Hollywood on Location is the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how location filmmaking supplemented and later, supplanted production on the studio lots. Drawing on archival research and in-depth case studies, the seven contributors show how location shooting expanded the geography of American film production, from city streets and rural landscapes to far-flung territories overseas, invoking a new set of creative, financial, technical, and logistical challenges. Whereas studio filmmaking sought to recreate nature, location shooting sought to master it, finding new production values and production economies that reshaped Hollywood’s modus operandi.

Author : Elizabeth Kendall
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461661252

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The Runaway Bride by Elizabeth Kendall Pdf

In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of Capra's kooky masterpiece-and the women starring in them-are the focus of Kendall's The Runaway Bride, a look at the films that mirrored the climate of the Great Depression while at the same time helping Americans get through it. Kendall details the collaborations between the romantic comedy directors and the female stars, showing how such films as Alice Adams (with Katherine Hepburn), Swing Time (where Ginger Rogers enjoys "A Fine Romance" with Fred Astaire), The Awful Truth (with Irene Dunne), and The Lady Eve (wherein Barbara Stanwyck's shapely leg repeatedly trips naïve millionaire Henry Fonda) came to be, and what they said about the 1930s. Written with erudition and enthusiasm, The Runaway Bride is a trip through some of Hollywood's most memorable moments, and a key to the national issues of an era as revealed in its films.

Author : Greg Elmer,Mike Gasher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780742536944

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Contracting Out Hollywood by Greg Elmer,Mike Gasher Pdf

In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic locations, producers and directors are taking their business to foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was shot in the United States_The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida. Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of 'runaway productions'_the growing practice of producing American films and television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing government politics toward cultural industries.

Author : Daniel Steinhart
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520298644

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Runaway Hollywood by Daniel Steinhart Pdf

After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and appealing locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon “runaway” production to underscore the outsourcing of employment opportunities. Examining this period of transition from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood shows how film companies exported production around the world and the effect this conversion had on industry practices and visual style. In this fascinating account, Daniel Steinhart uses an array of historical materials to trace the industry’s creation of a more international production operation that merged filmmaking practices from Hollywood and abroad to produce movies with a greater global scope.

Author : Robert R. Shandley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080859336

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Runaway Romances by Robert R. Shandley Pdf

Examines Hollywood's European travelogue romances from 1947 to 1964, the end of American isolationism and the advent of challenges in Hollywood that made American filmmakers begin filming abroad.

Author : Camille Johnson-Yale
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498532549

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A History of Hollywood’s Outsourcing Debate by Camille Johnson-Yale Pdf

A History of Hollywood’s Outsourcing Debate: Runaway Production provides a critical history of runaway production from its origins in postwar Hollywood to its present uses in describing a global network of diverse television and film production communities. Through extensive archival research, Camille Johnson-Yale chronicles Hollywood’s postwar push for investment in European production markets as a means for supporting the economy of America’s wartime allies while also opening industry access to lucrative trade relationships, exotic locations, and inexpensive skilled labor. For Hollywood’s studio production labor, however, the story of runaway production documents the gradual loss of power over the means of television and motion picture production. Though the phrase has taken on several meanings over its expansive history, it is argued that runaway production has ultimately served as a powerful, metaphorical rallying cry for a labor community coming to terms with a globalizing Hollywood industry that increasingly functions as an exportable process and less as a defined, industrial place.

Author : Drew Casper
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015070746287

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Postwar Hollywood by Drew Casper Pdf

This is a comprehensive introductory textbook exploring the unique period in the history of the film industry after World War II. Casper examines the cultural history, business practices, new technologies, censorship standards, emerging genres, and styles of post-war cinema.

Author : Tony Shaw,Denise Jeanne Youngblood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215366613

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Cinematic Cold War by Tony Shaw,Denise Jeanne Youngblood Pdf

The first book-length survey of cinema's vital role in the Cold War cultural combat between the U.S. and the USSR. Focuses on 10 films--five American and five Soviet, both iconic and lesser-known works--showing that cinema provided a crucial outlet for the global "debate" between democratic and communist ideologies.

Author : Beth L. Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059123896

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America in the Seventies by Beth L. Bailey Pdf

The seventies witnessed economic decline in America, coupled with a series of foreign policy failures, events that created an air of unease and uncertainty. This volume examines the ways in which Americans responded to a changing world and sought to redefine themselves.

Author : Greg Elmer,Mike Gasher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742575264

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Contracting Out Hollywood by Greg Elmer,Mike Gasher Pdf

Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of 'runaway productions'_the growing practice of producing American films and television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing government politics toward cultural industries.

Author : Michael Curtin,Kevin Sanson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520295438

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Voices of Labor by Michael Curtin,Kevin Sanson Pdf

"The film industry in Hollywood now employs a global mode of production run by massive media conglomerates that mobilize hundreds, sometimes thousands, of workers for each feature film or television series. Yet these workers and their labor remain largely invisible to the general audience. In fact, this has been a signal characteristic of Hollywood style for more than a hundred years: everything that matters happens onscreen, not off. Consequently, when it comes to movies and television, the voices heard most often are those belonging to talent and corporate executives. Those we hear least are the voices of labor, and it's that silence we aim to redress in the collection of interviews in this book. Drawing from the detailed and personal accounts in this collection, we offer three interrelated propositions about the current state and future prospects of craftwork and screen media labor: 1. Craftwork exists within an intricate and intimate matrix of social relations. 2. Hollywood craftwork today constitutes a regime of excessive labor. 3. Screen media production is a protean entity. We organized the collection into three sections: company town, global machine, and fringe city. The first section refers to Hollywood's historic roots as a core component of the motion picture business. The second section engages more directly with the spatial dynamics of film and television production to underscore the economic and political structures that are integrating distant locations into the studios' mode of production. We close with a section on the visual effects sector, in which stories shared by vfx artists, advocates, and organizers specifically illustrate how the industry today relies on marginal institutions to sustain its power and profitability"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Rachel Walls
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Morion picture locations
ISBN : 1841507210

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World Film Locations by Rachel Walls Pdf

Vancouver, the fourth largest film and television production center in North America, has hosted Hollywood filmmakers from Robert Altman and Dennis Hopper to Jason Reitman and Brad Bird, and is home to independent talent such as Bruce Sweeney and Mina Shum. World Film Locations: Vancouver offers insight into how so-called "runaway" productions from Hollywood use Vancouver as a stand-in for other locations and it highlights the work of Canadian filmmakers who deserve more attention. Thirty-eight analyses of different film scenes reveal the cinematic city in its myriad forms, while spotlight essays provide insight into the creativity and contradictions of Vancouver's film industry throughout the ages. The volume presents Vancouver's rich diversity and complexity, where magnificent marine and mountain views are both showcased and masked, downtown landmarks provide the backdrop for thrilling sequences, and lesser-known neighborhoods frame intriguing characters and plotlines. This book offers new perspectives on the relationship between the movies and the metropolis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123011426

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The Hollywood Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Breitbart,Mark Ebner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780471706243

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Hollywood, Interrupted by Andrew Breitbart,Mark Ebner Pdf

Hollywood, Interrupted is a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business personalities. Charting celebrities from rehab to retox, to jails, cults, institutions, near-death experiences and the Democratic Party, Hollywood, Interrupted takes readers on a surreal field trip into the amoral belly of the entertainment industry. Each chapter — covering topics including warped Hollywood child-rearing, bad medicine, hypocritical political maneuvering and the complicit media — delivers a meticulously researched, interview-infused, attitude heavy dispatch which analyzes and deconstructs the myths created by the celebrities themselves. Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood, Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more.