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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Review

"From Samuel Arkoff to Adolph Zukor, "Producing" gives us a model for examining this most misunderstood position in the movie hierarchy, and for analyzing the history and historiography of executive labor in Hollywood."--Eric Smoodin "author of Regarding Frank Capra "

""Producing" is an invaluable contribution to film studies and to American film history that sheds some serious light on the single most undervalued and misunderstood role in Hollywood filmmaking."--Thomas Schatz "author of The Genius of the System ""

"From Samuel Arkoff to Adolph Zukor, Producing gives us a model for examining this most misunderstood position in the movie hierarchy, and for analyzing the history and historiography of executive labor in Hollywood."--Eric Smoodin "author of Regarding Frank Capra "

"Producing is an invaluable contribution to film studies - and to American film history - that sheds some serious light on the single most undervalued and misunderstood role in Hollywood filmmaking."--Thomas Schatz "author of The Genius of the System "

About the Author

Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at Oregon State University. His books include The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture; The New American Cinema; Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, and The Godfather in bfi Film Classics.

About this edition

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