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Hollywood's artists : the Directors Guild of America and the construction of authorship
- Title
- Hollywood's artists : the Directors Guild of America and the construction of authorship / Virginia Wright Wexman.
- Author
- Wexman, Virginia Wright
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 297 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The production of a Hollywood movie encompasses the work of many people from the screenwriter and editor to the cinematographer and boom operator. Yet it is the director who is considered the artistic force behind a film. The notion of the director as the author of a film was not always a given but the result of a variety of different historical and institutional factors, including the breakup of the classical Hollywood studio system and the rise of the auteur theory in the 1960s. An often overlooked player in this story is the Directors Guild of America (DGA) that, as Virginia Wright Wexman argues, played a crucial role in establishing the director's status and power in Hollywood and in the public's mind. In Hollywood's Artists, Wexman provides the first history of the DGA and its influence. She begins by discussing how it differentiated itself from other industry unions, focusing on issues of status, networking, and creative control as opposed to money and job security. Wexman then considers how the DGA fought for directors to be credited as "authors" of the film and how this put them in conflict with others in the film industry. In addition to tracing the history of how directors created their image in the public's imagination, including their role in the McCarthy hearings, Wexman discusses how the DGA fought to have directors get more legal control over their films"--
- Series Statement
- Film and culture
- Uniform Title
- Film and culture.
- Subject
- Directors Guild of America > History
- Directors Guild of America
- Motion picture producers and directors > United States > History
- Motion pictures > Production and direction > History. > United States
- Motion picture industry > United States > History
- Motion picture industry
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Motion pictures > Production and direction
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-275) index.
- Contents
- Directors as artists : the DGA rides the wave -- Charisma and competition : the DGA stakes its claim -- Recognition : the DGA takes credit -- Politics : the DGA stages HUAC -- Law : the DGA and artists as owners.
- Call Number
- MFL 21-3790
- ISBN
- 9780231195683
- 0231195680
- 9780231195690
- 0231195699
- LCCN
- 2019052936
- OCLC
- 1127665159
- Author
- Wexman, Virginia Wright, author.
- Title
- Hollywood's artists : the Directors Guild of America and the construction of authorship / Virginia Wright Wexman.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Film and cultureFilm and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-275) index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Wexman, Virginia Wright. Hollywood's artists. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231551434 (DLC) 2019052937
- Research Call Number
- MFL 21-3790