The New Entrepreneurs

An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers

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de Jon Kraszewski

Type

Studies

Sujet

Technique > Scriptwriting

Mots Clés

screenwriter, television, 1950s

Année d'édition

2010

Editeur

Wesleyan University Press

Collection

Wesleyan Film

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 236 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-8195-6946-2

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Description de l'ouvrage:
How television writers thwarted the constraints of corporate culture in the 1950s and flourished

According to the sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1951 book, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, the "new entrepreneur" was a lone wolf able to succeed in post-World War II corporate America by elusively meandering through various institutions. During this time, anthology writers such as Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, and Paddy Chayefsky achieved a level of creativity that has rarely been equaled on television since. Yet despite their success, anthology writers still needed to evade the constraints and censorship of 50s television in order to stay true to their creative powers and political visions. Thus they worked as new entrepreneurs who adapted their more controversial scripts for the Hollywood, Broadway, and book publishing industries. Even after the television networks cancelled their prestigious anthology series at the end of the 50s, the most resilient writers were able to redefine what it meant to be entrepreneurs by launching cutting-edge shows such as The Twilight Zone and The Defenders that are still popular today. The New Entrepreneurs includes detailed textual analysis of legendary, sometimes hard-to-find, television anthology scripts that have received only cursory glances in television history until now.

À propos de l'auteur :
JON KRASZEWSKI is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Seton Hall University.

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