United Artists

ISBN-13: 9780367178987 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str.

Peter Kramer; Gary Needham; Yannis Tzioumakis

Opis

This edited collection brings together leading film historians to examine key aspects of United Artists' centennial history from its origins to the sometimes chaotic developments of the last four decades.

Spis treści

Introduction: United Artists in Film History – Tino Balio  Part 1  0. Introduction to Part 1 1. ‘One of the United Artists’: Buster Keaton, Joseph Schenck and United Artists 2. Declarations of Independence: Gloria Swanson at United Artists, 1925-1933 3. Going Independent in 1930s Hollywood: Freelance Star and Independent Producer Collaborations at United Artists 4. The Tramp, the Dictator and the Knight: United Artists and the Roadshowing of Prestige Pictures in the 1930s and 1940s 5. ‘Look, Ma, I’m A Corporation!’: United Artists and Kirk Douglas’s Bryna Productions 1955-1959 6. The Magnificent Seven Mirisch Companies: Competitive Strategy and Corporate Authorship 7. An Artist Under the Influence: United Artists and Woody Allen 8. No Shot in the Dark: Developing the Pink Panther Franchise  Part 2  0. Introduction to Part 2 9. United Artists, Fourth Quarter 1980: The Rhetoric of Hollywood Failure & Success 10. ‘Cruising Is A Picture We Sincerely Wish We Did Not Have to Show’: United Artists, Ratings, Blind-bidding and the Controversy of William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) 11. From Heaven’s Gate to Rocky IV: Reconfiguring Auteurism in United Artists’ Transition to MGM/UA in the 1980s 12. The Next Step: Orion Pictures as the New United Artists (1978-1985) 13. United Artists Films: Re-entering the Specialty Market (1999-2005) 14. From Star-Producer to Executive: Tom Cruise and/at United Artists (2006-2012)