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OverviewOf all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and movie-star-producers; producers who work for the studio; executive producers whose reputation and industry clout alone gets a project financed (though their day-to-day participation in the project may be negligible). The job title, regardless of the actual work involved, warrants a great deal of prestige in the film business; it is the credited producers, after all, who collect the Oscar for Best Picture. But what producers do and what they don’t or won’t do varies from project to project. Producing is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the roles that producers have played in Hollywood, from the dawn of the twentieth century to the present day. It introduces readers to the colorful figures who helped to define and reimagine the producer’s role, including inventors like Thomas Edison, moguls like Darryl F. Zanuck, entrepreneurs like Walt Disney, and mavericks like Roger Corman. Readers also get an inside look at the less glamorous jobs producers have often performed: shepherding projects through many years of development, securing financial backers, and supervising movie shoots. The latest book in the acclaimed Behind the Silver Screen series, Producing includes essays written by seven film scholars, each an expert in a different period of cinema history. Together, they give readers a full picture of how the art and business of producing films has changed over time—and how the producer’s myriad job duties continue to evolve in the digital era. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jon Lewis , Jon Lewis , Mark Lynn Anderson , Joanna E. RapfPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9780813567211ISBN 10: 0813567211 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 14 January 2016 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Jon Lewis 1 The Silent Screen, 1895–1927 Mark Lynn Anderson 2 Classical Hollywood, 1928–1946 Joanna E. Rapf 3 Postwar Hollywood, 1947–1967 Saverio Giovacchini 4 The Auteur Renaissance, 1968–1980 Jon Lewis 5 New Hollywood, 1981–1999 Douglas Gomery 6 The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000–Present Bill Grantham and Toby Miller Academy Awards for Producing Notes Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors IndexReviewsFrom 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 Author InformationJON LEWIS is the distinguished professor of film studies at Oregon State University. The former editor of Cinema Journal, he has published eleven books, including The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture; Whom God Wishes to Destroy…Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; and Hollywood v. Hard Core. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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