TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Christopher
TI  - Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties 
T2  - Texas Film and Media Studies Series
SN  - 9780292784604
U1  - 384.55/4/097309045 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History--20th century
KW  - Motion picture actors and actresses
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - History
KW  - Motion picture studios
KW  - Motion pictures and television
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Television
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; I. Introduction: Hollywood in the Home --; II. Thwarted Ambitions in the Studio Era --; III. Escape from the Studio System: Independent Producers and Television --; IV. The Sponsor's Medium: Light's Diamond Jubilee and the Campaign for the Peaceful Atom --; V. David O. Selznick and the Making of Light's Diamond Jubilee --; VI. Disneyland --; VII. Origins of Warner Bros. Television --; VIII. Negotiating the Television Text: Warner Bros. Presents --; IX. Reviving the Studio System at Warner Bros. Television --; X. The Pathology of Mass Production --; XI. Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The 1950s was one of the most turbulent periods in the history of motion pictures and television. During the decade, as Hollywood's most powerful studios and independent producers shifted into TV production, TV replaced film as America's principal postwar culture industry. This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of television and its narrative forms. Drawing on the archives of Warner Bros. and David O. Selznick Productions and on interviews with participants in both industries, Christopher Anderson demonstrates how the episodic telefilm series, a clear descendant of the feature film, became and has remained the dominant narrative form in prime-time TV. This research suggests that the postwar motion picture industry was less an empire on the verge of ruin—as common wisdom has it—than one struggling under unsettling conditions to redefine its frontiers. Beyond the obvious contribution to film and television studies, these findings add an important chapter to the study of American popular culture of the postwar period
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/730595
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292784604
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292784604/original
ER  -