Wexman Hollywood's Artists

The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55143-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Virginia Wright Wexman offers a groundbreaking history of how movie directors became cinematic auteurs that reveals and pinpoints the influence of the Directors Guild of America. Hollywood’s Artists sheds new light on the ways in which the DGA has shaped the role and image of directors both within the Hollywood system and in the culture at large.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wexman, Virginia Wright

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Directors as Artists: The DGA Rides the Wave
2. Charisma and Competition: The DGA Stakes Its Claim
3. Recognition: The DGA Takes Credit
4. Politics: The DGA Stages HUAC
5. Law: The DGA and Artists as Owners
Conclusion

Appendix A. Beyond Creative Rights
Appendix B. Chronology of the Directors Guild of America
Appendix C. Officers of the Directors Guild of America
Appendix D. Chronology of the Artists Rights Foundation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wexman Virginia Wright:
Virginia Wexman is professor emerita of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of A History of Film, 7th edition (Pearson, 2009) and Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage and Hollywood Performance (Princeton University Press, 2003) and the co-editor of Directing (Rutgers, 2017), Film and Authorship (Rutgers, 2002), and other books.Virginia Wright Wexman is professor emerita of English and art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her books include Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance (1993) and A History of Film (seventh edition, 2010).