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Producing
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Edited by:
Jon Lewis
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With contributions by:
Jon Lewis
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
About this book
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.
The latest book in the acclaimed Behind the Silver Screen series, Producing includes essays written by seven film scholars, each an expert in a different period of cinema history. Together, they give readers a full picture of how the art and business of producing films has changed over time—and how the producer’s myriad job duties continue to evolve in the digital era.
Author / Editor information
JON LEWIS is the distinguished professor of film studies at Oregon State University. The former editor of Cinema Journal, he has published eleven books, including The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture; Whom God Wishes to Destroy…Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; and Hollywood v. Hard Core.
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"Producing is an invaluable contribution to film studies – and to American film history – that sheds some serious light on the single most undervalued and misunderstood role in Hollywood filmmaking."
— Thomas Schatz, author of The Genius of the System"This addition to the 'Behind the Silver Screen' series brings together seven film scholars whose deft use of history and narrative reveal practical realities behind the amorphous, enigmatic role of the film producer in the US."
— CHOICE"This valuable resource will benefit a wide range of film students and scholars. Highly recommended for fans of Hollywood history and those with an interest in the 'business' side of creativity."
— Library Journal"From Samuel Arkoff to Adolph Zukor, Producing gives us a model for examining this most misunderstood position in the movie hierarchy, and for analyzing the history and historiography of executive labor in Hollywood."
— Eric Smoodin, author of Regarding Frank CapraTopics
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 14, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780813567235
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
216
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26 photos, 2 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780813567235
Keywords for this book
The Silver Screen; Producing; Behind the Scenes; American Film; Film; History; Media; Hollywood; Thomas Edison; Walt Disney; Roger Corman; Creative; Creative Decisions; Managerial Decisions; Financial Decisions; Producers; Closing Screen Credits; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Writers; Directors; Movie Stars; Movies; Oscar; Best Film; Film Development; Securing Financial Backers; Supervising Movie Shoots; Supervising; Shoots; Studio; Behind the Silver Screen; The Silent Screen; Mark Lynn Anderson; Joanna E. Rapf; Jon Lewis; Classical Hollywood; Post War Hollywood; Saverio Giovacchini; The Auteur Renaissance; Douglas Gomery; The Modern Entertainment Marketplace; Bill Grantham; Toby Miller; Academy Awards for Producing; American film history; Hollywood history; California; Hollywood industry; movie industry; film industry; Oregon State University; Oregon; film studies; Cinema Journal; he Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture; Whom God Wishes to Destroy; Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; and Hollywood v. Hard Core; twentieth century; business; industry clout; executive producers; Darryl F. Zanuck; entrepreneurs; writer; director; inventors; projects movie shoots; book; essays; digital era; cinema; cinema history; movie producing; movie production; silent films; Postwar Hollywood; entertainment; modern entertainment; entertainment marketplace; Academy Awards; awards for producing
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
