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      United Artists book

      Edited ByPeter Krämer, Gary Needham, Yannis Tzioumakis, Tino Balio
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 18 February 2020
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058332
      Pages 324
      eBook ISBN 9780429058332
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities
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      Krämer, P., Needham, G., Tzioumakis, Y., & Balio, T. (Eds.). (2020). United Artists (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058332

      ABSTRACT

      Established in 1919 by Hollywood's top talent United Artists has had an illustrious history, from Hollywood minor to industry leader to a second-tier media company in the shadow of MGM. This edited collection brings together leading film historians to examine key aspects of United Artists' centennial history from its origins to the sometimes chaotic developments of the last four decades. The focus is on several key executives – ranging from Joseph Schenck to Paula Wagner and Tom Cruise – and on many of the people making films for United Artists, including Gloria Swanson, David O. Selznick, Kirk Douglas, the Mirisch brothers and Woody Allen. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, individual case studies explore the mutually supportive but also in places highly contentious relationships between United Artists and its producers, the difficult balance between artistic and commercial objectives, and the resulting hits and misses (among them The General, the Pink Panther franchise, Heaven’s Gate, Cruising, and Hot Tub Time Machine). The second volume in the Routledge Hollywood Centenary series, United Artists is a fascinating and comprehensive study of the firm’s history and legacy, perfect for students and researchers of cinema and film history, media industries, and Hollywood.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |14 pages

      Introduction

      United Artists in film history
      ByTino Balio

      part Part 1|154 pages

      Introduction to Part 1

      chapter 1|19 pages

      ‘One of the United Artists’

      Buster Keaton, Joseph Schenck and United Artists
      ByPeter Krämer

      chapter 2|19 pages

      Declarations of independence

      Gloria Swanson at United Artists, 1925–1933
      ByMike Mashon

      chapter 3|18 pages

      Going independent in 1930s Hollywood

      Freelance star and independent producer collaborations at United Artists
      ByEmily Carman

      chapter 4|19 pages

      The Tramp, the Dictator and the Knight

      United Artists and the roadshowing of prestige pictures in the 1930s and 1940s
      BySheldon Hall

      chapter 5|18 pages

      ‘Look, Ma, I’m A Corporation!’

      United Artists and Kirk Douglas’ Bryna Productions, 1955–1959
      ByJames Fenwick

      chapter 6|20 pages

      The magnificent seven Mirisch Companies

      Competitive strategy and corporate authorship
      ByPaul Kerr

      chapter 7|18 pages

      An artist under the influence1

      United Artists and Woody Allen
      ByMichael Petitti

      chapter 8|19 pages

      No shot in the dark

      Developing the Pink Panther franchise
      ByOliver Gruner

      part Part 2|118 pages

      Introduction to Part 2

      chapter 9|19 pages

      United Artists, fourth quarter 1980

      The rhetoric of Hollywood failure and success
      ByJustin Wyatt

      chapter 10|19 pages

      ‘Cruising is a picture we sincerely wish we did not have to show’

      United Artists, ratings, blind bidding and the controversy of William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980)
      ByGary Needham

      chapter 11|20 pages

      From Heaven’s Gate to Rocky IV

      Reconfiguring auteurism in United Artists’ transition to MGM/UA in the 1980s
      ByNicholas Godfrey

      chapter 12|20 pages

      The next step

      Orion Pictures as the new United Artists, 1978–1985
      ByYannis Tzioumakis

      chapter 13|19 pages

      United Artists Films

      Re-entering the specialty market, 1999–2005
      ByLisa Dombrowski

      chapter 14|17 pages

      From star-producer to executive

      Tom Cruise and/at United Artists, 2006–2012
      BySarah E.S. Sinwell
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