Hollywood''s Artists - The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Directors as Artists: The DGA Rides the Wave
2. Charisma and Competition: The DGA Stakes Its Claim
3. Recognition: The DGA Takes Credit
4. Politics: The DGA Stages HUAC
5. Law: The DGA and Artists as Owners
Conclusion
Appendix A. Beyond Creative Rights
Appendix B. Chronology of the Directors Guild of America
Appendix C. Officers of the Directors Guild of America
Appendix D. Chronology of the Artists Rights Foundation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Virginia Wexman is professor emerita of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of A History of Film, 7th edition (Pearson, 2009) and Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage and Hollywood Performance (Princeton University Press, 2003) and the co-editor of Directing (Rutgers, 2017), Film and Authorship (Rutgers, 2002), and other books.

Summary

Virginia Wright Wexman offers a groundbreaking history of how movie directors became cinematic auteurs that reveals and pinpoints the influence of the Directors Guild of America. Hollywood’s Artists sheds new light on the ways in which the DGA has shaped the role and image of directors both within the Hollywood system and in the culture at large.

Additional text

Wexman has written a perceptive and interesting account of the Guild’s development and its underlying values.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Wright Wexman, Wexman Virginia Wright
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780231195683
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19568-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; USA, 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, History of the Americas, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Film production: technical & background skills, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills, Film; history