Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jon Lewis
1          The Silent Screen, 1895–1927
Mark Lynn Anderson
2          Classical Hollywood, 1928–1946
Joanna E. Rapf
3          Postwar Hollywood, 1947–1967
Saverio Giovacchini
4          The Auteur Renaissance, 1968–1980
Jon Lewis
5          New Hollywood, 1981–1999
Douglas Gomery
6          The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000–Present
Bill Grantham and Toby Miller
Academy Awards for Producing
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

JON LEWIS is the distinguished professor of film studies at Oregon State University. The former editor of Cinema Journal, he has published eleven books, including The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture; Whom God Wishes to Destroy…Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; and Hollywood v. Hard Core. 

Reviews

"This valuable resource will benefit a wide range of film students and scholars. Highly recommended for fans of Hollywood history and those with an interest in the 'business' side of creativity."
*Library Journal*

"This addition to the 'Behind the Silver Screen' series brings together seven film scholars whose deft use of history and narrative reveal practical realities behind the amorphous, enigmatic role of the film producer in the US."
*CHOICE*

"From Samuel Arkoff to Adolph Zukor, Producing gives us a model for examining this most misunderstood position in the movie hierarchy, and for analyzing the history and historiography of executive labor in Hollywood."
*author of Regarding Frank Capra*

"Producing is an invaluable contribution to film studies – and to American film history – that sheds some serious light on the single most undervalued and misunderstood role in Hollywood filmmaking."
*author of The Genius of the System*