Produced by Irving Thalberg : theory of studio-era filmmaking /
Drawing on archival sources, this is the first book to explore Thalberg's insights into casting, editing, story composition and the importance of the mass audience from a theoretical perspective.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2020]
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv136c52k |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Opening credits
- 2. Oblique casting and early MGM
- 3. One great scene: Thalberg's silent spectacles
- 4. Entertainment value and sound cinema
- 5. Love stories and general principles: the development of the production code
- 6. The intelligent producer and the restructuring of MGM
- 7. "What can we do to make the picture better?"
- 8. Conclusion: Once a star, always a star
- Works cited
- Index.