Working Title Films A Creative and Commercial History.

Drawing on over 30 interviews with key personnel from Working Title, Polygram and Universal, the author examines not only how this remarkable company has evolved but also why it has evolved in the way that it has by situating its history within the ever-changing landscape of the British and Hollywoo...

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Hlavní autor: Townsend, Nathan
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2021.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv1ns7mx3
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Creativity and Commerce: A Disagreement
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Transatlantic British Cinema and the Political Economy of Film
  • CHAPTER 2 The Independent Years: Hand-to-mouth Production and Social Art Cinema (1984-8)
  • CHAPTER 3 The PolyGram Years Part I: Founding a Studio and Making a Subsidiary (1988-92)
  • CHAPTER 4 The PolyGram Years Part II: Development, Green-lighting and Distribution (1993-8)
  • CHAPTER 5 Swapping Studios: From PolyGram to Universal (1998-9)
  • CHAPTER 6 The Universal Years Part I: Development, Green-lighting and Distribution (1999-2006)
  • CHAPTER 7 The Universal Years Part II: Retrenchment and Reorientation (2007-12)
  • CHAPTER 8 The Universal Years Part III: New Relationships (2012-)
  • CHAPTER 9 The Global Market for Working Title's Films
  • CHAPTER 10 Transatlantic British Cinema: Creative Risk, Commercial Risk and the Issue of Diversity
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index