America's corporate art
Subtitle: the studio authorship of Hollywood motion pictures
By: Jerome Christensen
Series: Post 45; Post 45
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804771672; 9780804778633
Subjects: Motion picture industry; Motion picture studios; Motion picture authorship; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rackets : entertainment inc. and the Warners gang (1928-1939); title: MGM and the invention of the postwar era : Mrs. Miniver and Battleground (1940-1949); title: "'Til the stars go cold" : Singin' in the rain, The band wagon, and Executive suite (1952-1954); title: Ownership and authorship : Warners' Fountainhead and Hitchcock's Vertigo (1949-1958); title: Saving Warner Bros. : Bonnie and Clyde, the movements, and the merger (1964-1968); title: Post-Warners Warners : Batman and JFK; You've got mail (1989-1998); title: The conscience of a corporation : toys united the Disney-Pixar merger, and the assertion of "cultural" authorship (1939-2006).