![]() Narrative that examines the studio system chronologically from its Schatz incorporates these four companies into a Resources, which forced the studio to emphasize lower grade and more Other hand, was a "major-minor," lacking in capital and Technicians, production facilities, and distribution. Such as Selznick relied heavily upon the majors for performers, Theater chains allowed them to dominate the market, while independents MGMĪnd Warner Brothers were integrated major studios whose ownership of Independent producer and eventually undermining the studio system. ![]() Selznick-whose Selznick International PicturesĬonstituted a personal studio while introducing the concept of the Warner Brothers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Universal, and independent Unwieldy, Schatz focuses his book upon four representative examples: More than an inflection of an established studio style" (6).Īsserting that a history of the entire studio system would be Styles, and, accordingly, that "any individual's style was no Should be awarded to producers and executives who drafted unique studio Instead, Schatz argues that greater attention and credit Personal style often negated the dehumanizing and profit-driven studioįactory system. University of Texas, challenges the "auteur theory" of filmĪuthorship, which celebrates the film director as an artist whose Schatz, a professor of communications at the Understand the contributions of Hollywood to cinema from the 1920s The classical Hollywood studio era, originally published in 1989,Īssures that this essential piece of film scholarship remains readilyĪvailable for academics as well as film fans seeking to better This attractive paperback edition of Thomas Schatz's study of University of Minnesota Press, 2010 $24.95 The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era ![]() APA style: Thomas Schatz: The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era.Thomas Schatz: The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era." Retrieved from 2012 Center for the Study of Film and History 28 Jul. MLA style: "Thomas Schatz: The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era." The Free Library. ![]()
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