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Working Title Films : A Creative and Commercial History / Nathan Townsend.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (268 p.) : 21 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474451932
  • 9781474451956
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 384.806541 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.G7 T69 2021eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: Provides the first history of Working Title FilmsOffers a detailed history of Working Title’s evolution as a film business over 30 yearsProvides a substantial reconsideration of the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and HollywoodIncludes use of substantial primary research including over 30 interviews with key personnel at Working Title, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and UniversalWorking Title Films is arguably the most important production company in the history of British cinema. This wide-ranging book charts the creative and commercial history of Working Title, from its origins as an independent in the 1980s, to its integration into PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in the 1990s, and to its current status as a subsidiary of Universal since the 2000s. In doing so, the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and Hollywood is examined through a consideration of the industrial structures, processes and practices which have defined the operation of the company. Moreover, it considers the ways in which these industrial transitions have produced distinct versions of Britain and Britishness onscreen – ranging from My Beautiful Laundrette and Wish You Were Here to Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and from Johnny English and Nanny McPhee to The Theory of Everything and Yesterday.Drawing on over 30 interviews with key personnel from Working Title, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 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 landscapes of the British and Hollywood film industries.
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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

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Provides the first history of Working Title FilmsOffers a detailed history of Working Title’s evolution as a film business over 30 yearsProvides a substantial reconsideration of the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and HollywoodIncludes use of substantial primary research including over 30 interviews with key personnel at Working Title, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and UniversalWorking Title Films is arguably the most important production company in the history of British cinema. This wide-ranging book charts the creative and commercial history of Working Title, from its origins as an independent in the 1980s, to its integration into PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in the 1990s, and to its current status as a subsidiary of Universal since the 2000s. In doing so, the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and Hollywood is examined through a consideration of the industrial structures, processes and practices which have defined the operation of the company. Moreover, it considers the ways in which these industrial transitions have produced distinct versions of Britain and Britishness onscreen – ranging from My Beautiful Laundrette and Wish You Were Here to Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and from Johnny English and Nanny McPhee to The Theory of Everything and Yesterday.Drawing on over 30 interviews with key personnel from Working Title, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 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 landscapes of the British and Hollywood film industries.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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