Producing
By: edited by Jon Lewis
Series: Behind the silver screen -- 7; Behind the silver screen (Series) -- 7.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780813567228; 9780813567211
Subjects: Motion pictures; Production and direction; Motion picture industry
Description: Of 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jon Lewis; title: The silent screen, 1895-1927 / Mark Lynn Anderson; title: Classical Hollywood, 1928-1946 / Joanna E. Rapf; title: Postwar Hollywood, 1947-1967 / Saverio Giovacchini; title: The auteur renaissance, 1968-1980 / Jon Lewis; title: New Hollywood, 1981-1999 / Douglas Gomery; title: The modern entertainment marketplace, 2000-present / Bill Grantham and Toby Miller; title: Academy Awards.