Menne Post-Fordist Cinema

Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54508-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Jeff Menne rewrites the history of the New Hollywood boom of the late 196s and 197s, arguing that auteur theory served to reconcile directors to Hollywood’s corporate project. Post-Fordist Cinema sheds new light on the cultural myth of the great director and the birth of the “creative economy.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menne, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Business of Auteur Theory
1: Post (Henry and John) Fordism: Kirk Douglas and Guerilla Economy
2. The Cinema of Defection: The Corporate Counterculture and Robert Altman’s Lion’s Gate
3. Television Totalities: Zanuck-Brown and the Privately-Held Company
4. The Ethos of Incorporation: BBS and the Law of Unnatural Persons
Afterword: Auteurs, Amateurs, Animators

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Menne Jeff:
Jeff Menne is assistant professor and program director of Screen Studies at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Francis Ford Coppola (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and the co-editor of Film and the American Presidency (Routledge, 2015). His work has been published in Cinema Journal, Postmodern Culture, and Post Script.Jeff Menne is associate professor and program director of screen studies at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Francis Ford Coppola (2015).