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The Studios after the Studios

Neoclassical Hollywood (1970-2010)

J. D. Connor Connor J D

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English
Stanford University Press
08 April 2015
Series: Post*45
Modern Hollywood is dominated by a handful of studios: Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. Threatened by independents in the 1970s, they returned to power in the 1980s, ruled unquestioned in the 1990s, and in the new millennium are again beseiged. But in the heyday of this new classical era, the major studios movies - their stories and styles - were astonishingly precise biographies of the studios that made them. Movies became product placements for their studios, advertising them to the industry, to their employees, and to the public at large. If we want to know how studios work-how studios think-we need to watch their films closely. How closely? Maniacally so. In a wide range of examples, The Studios after the Studios explores the gaps between story and backstory in order to excavate the hidden history of Hollywood's second great studio era.

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Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 178mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   816g
ISBN:   9780804790772
ISBN 10:   0804790779
Series:   Post*45
Pages:   376
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Audience:   Adult education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

J.D. Connor is Assistant Professor in History of Art and Film Studies at Yale University.

Reviews for The Studios after the Studios: Neoclassical Hollywood (1970-2010)

Connor structures his analysis of product - Jaws, Footloose, Saturday Night Fever, and Flashdance, to name a few - around the idea of corporate auteurship. In each film one can find a link between the artist and the production committee . . . Recommended. A. Hirsh, CHOICE


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