9 edition of Walter Wanger, Hollywood independent found in the catalog.
Published
2000 by University of Minnesota Press in Minneapolis .
Written in
Edition Notes
Statement | Matthew Bernstein ; foreword by Robert Wise. |
Genre | Biography. |
Series | Commerce and mass culture series |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | PN1998.3.W345 B47 2000 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | p. cm. |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL59825M |
ISBN 10 | 081663548X |
LC Control Number | 99088848 |
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About the Book. Boom and Bust traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio system—including the shift to independent production—and the dominant stars, genres, and production trends through the period.
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A graduate of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Walter Wanger was among the more literate and socially conscious American film producers of his time. At the peak of his career, his salary was exceeded only by that of Louis B.
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Doherty, Thomas, "Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent," in Film Quarterly (Berkeley), Summer Leaving aside the headline-grabbing incidents that blighted the last decade of his career, Walter Wanger stands as the epitome of the inspirational Hollywood producer, committed to artistry as much as profit, provocation as much as pleasure.
Walter Wanger, one of Hollywood's few independent producers at the time, recorded his battle to get Cleopatra made in this wonderful diary. More than anything, Cleopatra reflects the demise of the old studio system and the dawning of modern celebrity culture/5. Doherty, Thomas, "Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent," in Film Quarterly (Berkeley), Summer * * * Leaving aside the headline-grabbing incidents that blighted the last decade of his career, Walter Wanger stands as the epitome of the inspirational Hollywood producer, committed to artistry as much as profit, provocation as much as pleasure.
Meeting Walter Wanger one quickly understands why. Possibly no Hollywood producer has had the close contact, the directorial supervision and the actual operation of more phases of motion picture activity than this energetic independent producer. “The story of the movie’s production—which is also the story of how the budget got so big—is pretty remarkable, and is told remarkably by its producer, Walter Wanger, in the book, My Life with Cleopatra I’ve written often about the crucial role played by independent producers, in classic Hollywood and today, in liberating.
All serious scholars of American film history will read this book with admiration and find its insights as well as its methods an inspiration.”—Matthew Bernstein, author of Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent "The Decline of Sentiment is an impressively researched and quite original book. Again and again, Jacobs makes persuasive arguments.
—Matthew H. Bernstein, author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent "Gloria Swanson was, beyond doubt, the brightest star in Hollywood's glittering firmament for many decades, beginning in the era of silent films, continuing well into the postwar : University Press of Mississippi.
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In his recently released book, Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent, Assistant Professor of Film Studies Matthew Bernstein writes that because of that infamous incident, Wanger's true importance as a producer has been overshadowed. He describes Wanger's life as "one of Hollywood's great and--except for his notorious crime of passion in As the title implies, BearManor Media’s The History of Independent Cinema covers the century-long development of – American – filmmaking outside the big-studio lots.
Now, who were those independents. Well, as author and film critic Phil Hall explains, they range from those fleeing the Thomas Edison East Coast oligopoly back in the early s all the way to John Cameron Mitchell in the.
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While Don Siegel recalls pdf costing “under $,” 11 Matthew Bernstein in his book Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent pins the precise cost as $, 14 far above the usual low-budget fare of .Wanger is remembered today mostly by download pdf who comb the credits of old movies, but in the late s and early s he was a national celebrity and one of the most highly paid men in Hollywood.
An independent producer, allied to various studios but beholden to none, he was a maverick in the same league as David O. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn.