Runaway Hollywood : internationalizing postwar production and location shooting /
After World War II, as Hollywood faced a changing industrial landscape, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, where they capitalized on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor and striking locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon "runaway" production to underscor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | After World War II, as Hollywood faced a changing industrial landscape, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, where they capitalized on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor and striking locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon "runaway" production to underscore the dispersal of employment opportunities. Examining the late 1940s to early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood details these changes, showing how film companies exported production around the world and the effect of this move on visual style. It uses an array of historical materials to trace the industry's creation of a more global production operation that intermixed craft practices and aesthetic ideas from Hollywood and abroad. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520298637 0520298632 9780520298644 0520298640 |