TY - GEN T1 - Hollywood's artists : the Directors Guild of America and the construction of authorship T2 - Film and culture. A1 - Wexman, Virginia Wright LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1140352070 AB - "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"-- CN - PN1995.9.P7 W477 2020 SN - 0231551436 SN - 9780231551434 SN - 9780231195683 SN - 9780231195690 KW - Directors Guild of America : History. KW - Directors Guild of America KW - Motion picture producers and directors : United States : History. KW - Motion pictures : Production and direction : United States : History. KW - Motion picture industry : United States : History. KW - Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma : États-Unis : Histoire. KW - Cinéma : Production et réalisation : États-Unis : Histoire. KW - Cinéma : Industrie : États-Unis : Histoire. KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism KW - Motion picture industry KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Motion pictures : Production and direction KW - United States KW - History ER -