Producing: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178453434X ISBN 13: 9781784534349

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2015

Synopsis

Of all the job titles in the screen credits, 'producer' is the most amorphous, partly because these people are uniquely involved in several aspects of a movie project at once, partly because there are so many different kinds: businesswomen and businessmen producers, writer, director, film star producers & executive producers. Producers raise money and supervise development, they procure a script or book or 'pre-sold property' (like Harry Potter or Batman) & more. This book is all about what producers have actually done during Hollywood's history, delving into the careers of the exemplary figures, from Irving Thalberg to the multiple co-producers of 7 Years a Slave. This is also a great introduction to the ways in which the Hollywood industry works as a business; producers are at the money, business end and their work runs through the entire process of getting a movie onto the screen - or failing to do so.

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About the Author

Jon Lewis is the University Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and University Honors College Eminent Professor at Oregon State University. He has published thirteen books, including The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture (a Choice magazine Academic Book of the Year selection) Whom God Wishes to Destroy … Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood (a Booklist starred title), Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry (a New York Times New and Noteworthy title), Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, and for the British Film Institute’s Film Classics series, The Godfather. Professor Lewis has appeared in two theatrically released documentaries on film censorship: Inside Deep Throat (Fenton Bailey, 2005) and This Film is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick, 2006). Between 2002 and 2007, Lewis was editor of Cinema Journal and had a seat on the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178453434X
• ISBN 13: 9781784534349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Lewis Jon