William D. Romanowski
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195387841
- eISBN:
- 9780199950188
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387841.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter investigates a struggle within the National Council’s Broadcasting and Film Commission as the agency became attuned to Hollywood’s new freedoms and industrial structure. Two conflicting ...
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This chapter investigates a struggle within the National Council’s Broadcasting and Film Commission as the agency became attuned to Hollywood’s new freedoms and industrial structure. Two conflicting outlooks existed. A group centered in the Hollywood office wanted to imitate the Catholic approach by consulting with film producers and then promoting these Protestant-themed films with churchgoers. Others allied with the main office in New York would not be content with protecting the Protestant image in the media and rejected anything that smacked of censorial design. They advanced initiatives to address the industry’s new freedoms, challenges, and responsibilities, with the central issue being how to support free speech and still advocate appropriate restraints on film content. This state of affairs shaped the agenda for the Council’s next major initiative.Less
This chapter investigates a struggle within the National Council’s Broadcasting and Film Commission as the agency became attuned to Hollywood’s new freedoms and industrial structure. Two conflicting outlooks existed. A group centered in the Hollywood office wanted to imitate the Catholic approach by consulting with film producers and then promoting these Protestant-themed films with churchgoers. Others allied with the main office in New York would not be content with protecting the Protestant image in the media and rejected anything that smacked of censorial design. They advanced initiatives to address the industry’s new freedoms, challenges, and responsibilities, with the central issue being how to support free speech and still advocate appropriate restraints on film content. This state of affairs shaped the agenda for the Council’s next major initiative.
Gregory D. Booth
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195327632
- eISBN:
- 9780199852055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327632.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter examines the technologies and the changing “limits of the possible” under which film musicians, recording engineers, music directors and film producers in Mumbai, India operated. It ...
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This chapter examines the technologies and the changing “limits of the possible” under which film musicians, recording engineers, music directors and film producers in Mumbai, India operated. It suggests that despite the limitations of technology there were instances when Mumbai musicians and engineers exceeded the technological limitations of their environment. In this way, technology has been the ground on which the professional and social structures of daily life were constructed and the primary determinant in a determinist history of this music culture.Less
This chapter examines the technologies and the changing “limits of the possible” under which film musicians, recording engineers, music directors and film producers in Mumbai, India operated. It suggests that despite the limitations of technology there were instances when Mumbai musicians and engineers exceeded the technological limitations of their environment. In this way, technology has been the ground on which the professional and social structures of daily life were constructed and the primary determinant in a determinist history of this music culture.
Chris Hopkins
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786941145
- eISBN:
- 9781789629422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941145.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter has three sections. The first covers Greenwood’s life and writing from his birth in 1903 up until Jonathan Cape’s acceptance of his novel Love on the Dole in 1933 and his instant ...
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This chapter has three sections. The first covers Greenwood’s life and writing from his birth in 1903 up until Jonathan Cape’s acceptance of his novel Love on the Dole in 1933 and his instant celebrity. The second covers his especially productive and famous years as a professional writer (and a film producer for Greenpark Ltd) between 1933 and 1944. The third section gives an account of the rest of his writing life and his continuing presence in the public eye from 1945 until his death in 1974. This includes discussion of his later work for theatre and his 1967 memoir of his life until the age of 33, There Was a Time, as well as the stage version, Hanky Park. The chapter is the fullest existing literary biographical account of Walter Greenwood, discussing many of his works which have not been discussed since the original reviews, and relating them to Love on the Dole.Less
This chapter has three sections. The first covers Greenwood’s life and writing from his birth in 1903 up until Jonathan Cape’s acceptance of his novel Love on the Dole in 1933 and his instant celebrity. The second covers his especially productive and famous years as a professional writer (and a film producer for Greenpark Ltd) between 1933 and 1944. The third section gives an account of the rest of his writing life and his continuing presence in the public eye from 1945 until his death in 1974. This includes discussion of his later work for theatre and his 1967 memoir of his life until the age of 33, There Was a Time, as well as the stage version, Hanky Park. The chapter is the fullest existing literary biographical account of Walter Greenwood, discussing many of his works which have not been discussed since the original reviews, and relating them to Love on the Dole.
Gillian Doyle
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748698233
- eISBN:
- 9781474416122
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748698233.003.0009
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Based on key players’ testimony and an extensive documented record, this chapter initially discusses the political background to the fraught merger talks between the BFI and the UKFC in 2009-2010, ...
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Based on key players’ testimony and an extensive documented record, this chapter initially discusses the political background to the fraught merger talks between the BFI and the UKFC in 2009-2010, along with the uncertain role of the DCMS. It then turns to consider the shock decision to close the UKFC taken by Conservative ministers in the DCMS serving in the Coalition government elected in May 2010. Various possible reasons for closure are evaluated in considerable detail and the impact on the UKFC is described. The account analyses each of the steps taken by the DCMS to devise a new landscape of film support post-UKFC, with the BFI assuming many functions after extensive negotiation with ministers and civil servants. Next, the BFI’s new turn in film policy is considered. A range of views on the closure decision, both pro and con, is discussed.Less
Based on key players’ testimony and an extensive documented record, this chapter initially discusses the political background to the fraught merger talks between the BFI and the UKFC in 2009-2010, along with the uncertain role of the DCMS. It then turns to consider the shock decision to close the UKFC taken by Conservative ministers in the DCMS serving in the Coalition government elected in May 2010. Various possible reasons for closure are evaluated in considerable detail and the impact on the UKFC is described. The account analyses each of the steps taken by the DCMS to devise a new landscape of film support post-UKFC, with the BFI assuming many functions after extensive negotiation with ministers and civil servants. Next, the BFI’s new turn in film policy is considered. A range of views on the closure decision, both pro and con, is discussed.
Robert Miklitsch (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038594
- eISBN:
- 9780252096518
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038594.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating ...
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Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle. But a new generation of writers is pushing aside the fog of cigarette smoke surrounding classic noir scholarship. This book is a bold collection of essays that reassesses the genre's iconic style, history, and themes. Chapters analyze the oft-overlooked female detective and little-examined aspects of filmmaking like love songs and radio aesthetics, discuss the significance of the producer and women's pulp fiction, as well as investigate Disney noir and the Fifties heist film, B-movie back projection and blacklisted British directors. At the same time the writers' collective reconsideration unwinds the impact of hot-button topics like race and gender, history and sexuality, technology and transnationality.Less
Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle. But a new generation of writers is pushing aside the fog of cigarette smoke surrounding classic noir scholarship. This book is a bold collection of essays that reassesses the genre's iconic style, history, and themes. Chapters analyze the oft-overlooked female detective and little-examined aspects of filmmaking like love songs and radio aesthetics, discuss the significance of the producer and women's pulp fiction, as well as investigate Disney noir and the Fifties heist film, B-movie back projection and blacklisted British directors. At the same time the writers' collective reconsideration unwinds the impact of hot-button topics like race and gender, history and sexuality, technology and transnationality.
Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231165518
- eISBN:
- 9780231850391
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231165518.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme D'Or and Academy ...
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The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme D'Or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This book considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analysing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.Less
The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme D'Or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This book considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analysing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.
Richard Barrios
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199973842
- eISBN:
- 9780199370115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199973842.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
This chapter describes the creators—or authors—of musical film, from directors to producers and choreographers. These include old-pro movie professionals like Michael Curtiz and those totally ...
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This chapter describes the creators—or authors—of musical film, from directors to producers and choreographers. These include old-pro movie professionals like Michael Curtiz and those totally unsuited such as Cecil B. DeMille and producer David O. Selznick, and even the stage professional Joshua Logan. More successful stage newcomers include Rouben Mamoulian, Vincente Minnelli, Rob Marshall, and the daring choreographer Jack Cole. Producers Arthur Freed and (especially) Joe Pasternak made a specialty of musicals, to greater and lesser effect. The chapter ends by looking at the various audacities of Busby Berkeley and Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!), and creator/stars Gene Kelly (Invitation to the Dance) and John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch).Less
This chapter describes the creators—or authors—of musical film, from directors to producers and choreographers. These include old-pro movie professionals like Michael Curtiz and those totally unsuited such as Cecil B. DeMille and producer David O. Selznick, and even the stage professional Joshua Logan. More successful stage newcomers include Rouben Mamoulian, Vincente Minnelli, Rob Marshall, and the daring choreographer Jack Cole. Producers Arthur Freed and (especially) Joe Pasternak made a specialty of musicals, to greater and lesser effect. The chapter ends by looking at the various audacities of Busby Berkeley and Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!), and creator/stars Gene Kelly (Invitation to the Dance) and John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch).
David Sterritt
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231172011
- eISBN:
- 9780231850711
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231172011.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful ...
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He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful actor-director-producer in American film history. This book examines the major elements of his career, focusing primarily on his work as a director but also exploring the evolution of his acting style, his long association with screen violence, his interest in jazz, and the political views—sometimes hotly controversial—reflected in his films and public statements. Especially fascinating is the pivotal question that divides critics and moviegoers to this day: is Eastwood a capable director with a photogenic face, a modest acting talent, and a flair for marketing his image? Or is he a true cinematic auteur with a distinctive vision of America's history, traditions, and values? From A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby and beyond, this book takes a close-up look at one of the screen's most influential and charismatic stars.Less
He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful actor-director-producer in American film history. This book examines the major elements of his career, focusing primarily on his work as a director but also exploring the evolution of his acting style, his long association with screen violence, his interest in jazz, and the political views—sometimes hotly controversial—reflected in his films and public statements. Especially fascinating is the pivotal question that divides critics and moviegoers to this day: is Eastwood a capable director with a photogenic face, a modest acting talent, and a flair for marketing his image? Or is he a true cinematic auteur with a distinctive vision of America's history, traditions, and values? From A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby and beyond, this book takes a close-up look at one of the screen's most influential and charismatic stars.
