Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the FiftiesThe 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. |
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... Bryan Moore to Art Sil- ver , 12 January 1959 ; Bryan Moore to R. J. Obringer , 1 January 1958 . 51. Moore , File Memo , 15 November 1961 ; Milton Orman to Bryan Moore , 15 November 1961 ; Paul B. Stager to Bryan Moore , 2 February 1962 ...
... Bryan Moore , 14 April 1957 ; Analysis of Production # 26903 , " Warning of the Feather , " n.d. [ c . May 1957 ] ; Bryan Moore to Cedric Francis , 4 February 1958 . 20. Jack L. Warner to William T. Orr , 6 December 1956 . 21. " WB / TV ...
... Bryan Moore to E. L. Depatie , 18 June 1956 ; Roy Huggins to William T. Orr , 3 February 1958 ; E. Henry Lewis to William T. Orr , 4 February 1958 ; William T. Orr to Bryan Moore , 13 March 1958 . 38. Bryan Moore to Jack L. Warner , 5 ...
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