America's corporate art : the studio authorship of Hollywood motion pictures /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Christensen, Jerome, 1948- author.
Imprint:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2012.
Description:	viii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Post 45 Post 45.
Subject:	Motion picture studios -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Motion picture authorship -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8558612

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ISBN:	9780804771672 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804771677 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804778633 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804778639 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

The rackets : entertainment inc. and the Warners gang (1928-1939)
MGM and the invention of the postwar era : Mrs. Miniver and Battleground (1940-1949)
"'Til the stars go cold" : Singin' in the rain, The band wagon, and Executive suite (1952-1954)
Ownership and authorship : Warners' Fountainhead and Hitchcock's Vertigo (1949-1958)
Saving Warner Bros. : Bonnie and Clyde, the movements, and the merger (1964-1968)
Post-Warners Warners : Batman and JFK; You've got mail (1989-1998)
The conscience of a corporation : toys united the Disney-Pixar merger, and the assertion of "cultural" authorship (1939-2006).

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