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

English · Hardback

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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.

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

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