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"Because directors have a comprehensive view of the filmmaking industry, they have often been interviewed for their insights on movie making. Until Hollywood in Wide Angle, however, their responses have never been so revealing." "More than thirty film directors were interviewed by Jack Rothman, a social scientist who guaranteed their responses would remain anonymous. Rothman analyzes the uncensored comments from these ideal informants to give readers...

What if an aspiring screenwriter could get just two minutes of face time with a major Hollywood exec to make a pitch? Welcome to Pitchmart. In this reality-based program, five people with five big ideas express their passions and frustrations as they spend a week with Ken Rotcop to polish their presentations, and then two precious minutes with the decision-makers who could transform their scripts into box office bonanzas. Rotcop, Pitchmart's founder,...

A collection of stories and essays dealing with America's movie industry from the turn of the century until the 1980s.

David Niven presents anecdotes about and observations on the private lives and public doings of the greats and not-so-greats of Hollywood between 1935 and 1960.

Hollywood has long been associated with scandal--with covering it up, with managing its effects, and, in some cases, with creating and directing it. In putting together Headline Hollywood, Adrienne McLean and David Cook approach the relationship between Hollywood and scandal from a fresh perspective. The contributors consider some of the famous transgressions that shocked Hollywood and its audiences during the last century, and explore the changing...

Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms over. Mixing social history, urban studies, literature, and film, this book offers an account of how a temporary structure has become a permanent icon of American culture.

Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to suppress the 1941 film Citizen Kane and destroy Welles.

A look at the Hollywood motion picture industry examines how the major entertainment empires make their money, profiling the individuals who created these conglomerates and the ways in which Hollywood has evolved to survive financially.

"Faulkner's interviews with those composers considered to be elite and those on the industry's periphery reveal how they perceive their careers, how they define commercial artistic success, and how they establish, or try to establish, those vital connections with filmmakers. Now available in paperback, this pioneering study will be of compelling interest to researchers in culture studies as well as readers interested in learning more about this little-known...