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Hollywood's Artists - The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship (Hardcover)
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Hollywood's Artists - The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship (Hardcover)
Series: Film and Culture Series
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Today, the director is considered the leading artistic force behind
a film. The production of a Hollywood movie requires the labor of
many people, from screenwriters and editors to cinematographers and
boom operators, but the director as author of the film overshadows
them all. How did this concept of the director become so deeply
ingrained in our understanding of cinema? In Hollywood's Artists,
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 (DGA). Guided by Frank
Capra's mantra "one man, one film," the Guild has portrayed its
director-members as the creators responsible for turning Hollywood
entertainment into cinematic art. Wexman details how the DGA
differentiated itself from other industry unions, focusing on
issues of status and creative control as opposed to
bread-and-butter concerns like wages and working conditions. She
also traces the Guild's struggle for creative and legal power,
exploring subjects from the language of on-screen credits to the
House Un-American Activities Committee's investigations of the
movie industry. Wexman emphasizes the gendered nature of images of
the great director, demonstrating how the DGA promoted the idea of
the director as a masculine hero. Drawing on a broad array of
archival sources, interviews, and theoretical and sociological
insight, Hollywood's Artists sheds new light on the ways in which
the Directors Guild of America has shaped the role and image of
directors both within the Hollywood system and in the culture at
large.
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