The new entrepreneurs
Subtitle: an institutional history of television anthology writers
By: Jon Kraszewski.
Series: Wesleyan film
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780819569462
Subjects: Television authorship -- United States; Television plays, American -- History and criticism; Television -- Production and direction -- United States; Television programs -- Economic aspects -- United States; Television programs -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Between the television and book publishing industries : anthology writers and their struggle for authorial identities; title: Between the television and theater industries : representations of race in Rod Serling's "Noon on doomsday"; title: Between the television and motion picture industries : Paddy Chayefsky's Marty as art cinema; title: New strategies for entrepreneurship : Reginald Rose, The defenders, and the 1960s television industry; title: A new zone of production? Rod Serling's attempt to redefine the role of the writer in the 1960s television industry.