Runaway Hollywood - Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-29863-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinhart, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Filmindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Prologue: Movie Ruins
Introduction: “Have Talent, Will Travel”

part i:

foundations
1 • All the World’s a Studio: Th e Design and Debates
of Postwar “Runaway” Productions
Case Study. Tax Evasion, Red-Baiting, and the White Whale:

Moby Dick (1956)

part i i:

production
2 • London, Rome, Paris: Th e Infrastructure of Hollywood’s
Mode of International Production
3 • Lumière, Camera, Azione!: Th e Personnel and Practices
of Hollywood’s Mode of International Production
Case Study. When in Rome: Roman Holiday (1953)

part i i i:

style
4 • A Cook’s Tour of the World: Th e Art of International
Location Shooting
Case Study. Mental Spaces and Cinematic Places:

Lust for Life (1956)
Epilogue: Sunken Movie Relics
Appendix: Hollywood’s International Productions,
1948–1962
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Steinhart is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. His work on film and media has appeared in Cinema Journal, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies, and various edited collections.