TY - BOOK ID - 37356129 TI - Post-Fordist cinema : Hollywood auteurs and the corporate counterculture AU - Menne, Jeff AU - Columbia University Press PY - 2019 SN - 9780231183703 0231183704 9780231183710 0231183712 9780231545082 0231545088 PB - New York Columbia University Press DB - UniCat KW - Auteur theory (Motion pictures) KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Motion picture industry KW - History KW - film KW - filmgeschiedenis KW - filmtheorie KW - twintigste eeuw KW - Verenigde Staten KW - New Hollywood KW - Zanuck Richard KW - Altman Robert KW - Douglas Kirk KW - Brown David KW - 791.43 KW - Politique des auteurs (Motion pictures) KW - Motion pictures KW - Directors, Motion picture KW - Film directors KW - Film producers KW - Filmmakers KW - Motion picture directors KW - Moviemakers KW - Moving-picture producers and directors KW - Producers, Motion picture KW - Persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:37356129 AB - "The New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the backdrop of counterculture sensibilities and the prominence of auteur theory, New Hollywood directors such as Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola seemed to embody creative individualism. In Post-Fordist Cinema, Jeff Menne rewrites the history of this period, arguing that auteur theory served to reconcile directors to Hollywood's corporate project. Menne traces the surprising affinities between auteur theory and management gurus such as Peter Drucker, who envisioned a more open and flexible corporate style. In founding production companies, New Hollywood filmmakers took part in the creation of new corporate models that emphasized entrepreneurial creativity. For firms such as Kirk Douglas's Bryna Productions, Altman's Lion's Gate Films, the Zanuck-Brown Company, and BBS Productions, the counterculture ethos limbered up the studio system's sclerotic production process--with striking parallels to how management theory conceived of the role of the individual within the firm. Menne offers insightful readings of how films such as Lonely Are the Brave, Brewster McCloud, Jaws, and The King of Marvin Gardens narrate the conditions in which they were created, depicting shifting notions of work and corporate structure. While auteur theory allowed directors to cast themselves as independent creators, Menne argues that its most consequential impact came as a management doctrine. An ambitious rethinking of New Hollywood, Post-Fordist Cinema sheds new light on the cultural myth of the great director and the birth of the 'creative economy'" ER -