Movies and Money
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.63 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067976741X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 346 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Luc REYNAERT said Acidic analysis of the European movie industry.. For insider David Puttnam, Europe who invented the movie, lost the movie industry battle due to external (two World Wars), but mostly internal causes:1. Europe, unlike the US, didn't see the movie industry as a totality (control of production + distribution + theatres)"Acidic analysis of the European movie industry." according to Luc REYNAERT. For insider David Puttnam, Europe who invented the movie, lost the movie industry battle due to external (two World Wars), but mostly internal causes:1. Europe, unlike the US, didn't see the movie industry as a totality (control of production + distribution + theatres)2. Europe didn't want to understand the mar. . Europe didn't want to understand the mar. "Excellent look at filmbut not for the casual filmgoer" according to Eric Nelson. This book does not have scandalous stories about stars and troubled film productionsif you're looking for those types of stories William Goldman and Peters Bart & Gruber have excellent titles that will give you insite into film and satisfy your pop culture curiosities.What Puttnam achieves is a detailed history. Ricky Hunter said Movies from an International and Financial Vantage Point. David Puttnam (with Neil Watson) has written a book that has a different, and often very personal, perspective from the usual film histories. It is a broader, more international examination into the reasons for Hollywood gaining world wide dominance of the film industry. This is not about movies per se but is,
won the battle from the first shot. offered Puttnam extra money to reshoot Local Hero with a happy ending that would have destroyed its pro-pastoral, anticommercial message. Despite massive totalitarian-government support, Russians shunned the masterpiece The Battleship Potemkin in favor of Douglas Fairbanks's Robin Hood. He's not just a film professional and historian. He's a local hero. Today, 80 to 90 percent of Europe's filmgoers go to U.S. 1 Smash Hit!" Puttnam yearns to see European film get on its feet and fight back with hits of its own, supported with more savvy marketing. The Crying Game was a flop in England, then a U.S. films, and Hollywood's influence is everywhere. If any other ex-studio chief wrote a book called Movies and Money, it would be essentially similar to Roger Corman's How I Made a Hundred Movies in
Movies and Money is a groundbreaking book that will change our understanding of the movie business."Excellent. In the process he introduces a host of colorful characters: from Goldwyn and Zanuck to Eisner and Ovitz. A book so well written that it can easily be read at a single sitting."--San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner"Puttnam has a dry sense of humor, and most of his book is jammed with astonishing anecdotes and seething portraits of the personalities of film history."-- Newsday. "A fascinating history."--Time Out New YorkThe acclaimed producer of such classic films as Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields, and the only European ever to head a major Hollywood studio, former Columbia Pictures chief David Puttnam has written a fascinating behind-the-scenes history of the movie business and of the unique and frequently unholy alliance between commerce and art that underpins it.Puttnam's story moves from the early days of cinema and the rivalry between Edison and the Lumiere brothers, through the rise of the studio system, and up to the present day, with European filmmakers and politicians struggling to protect their industry and even their cultural identity from a triumphant and all-devouring Hollywood