Nathan Townsend

Working Title Films (eBook, PDF)

A Creative and Commercial History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Provides the first history of Working Title Films

• Offers a detailed history of Working Title's evolution as a film business over almost 40 years
• Provides a major reconsideration of the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and Hollywood
• Uses substantial primary research, including over 30 interviews with key personnel at Working Title, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Universal

Working Title Films is arguably the most important production company in the history of British cinema. This wide-ranging book charts the creative and commercial history of Working Title, from its origins as an independent in the 1980s, to its integration into PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in the 1990s, and to its current status as a subsidiary of Universal since the 2000s. In doing so, the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and Hollywood is examined through a consideration of the industrial structures, processes and practices which have defined the operation of the company. Moreover, it considers the ways in which these industrial transitions have produced distinct versions of Britain and Britishness onscreen - ranging from My Beautiful Laundrette and Wish You Were Here to Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and from Johnny English and Nanny McPhee to The Theory of Everything and Yesterday.

Drawing on over 30 interviews with key personnel from Working Title, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Universal, the author examines not only how this remarkable company has evolved but also why it has evolved in the way that it has by situating its history within the ever-changing landscapes of the British and Hollywood film industries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474451956
• Artikelnr.: 72413375

Autorenporträt

Dr Nathan Townsend is Associate Lecturer in Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York and Research Associate on the Beyond the Multiplex AHRC project

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Transatlantic British Cinema and the Political Economy of Film
Chapter 2: The Independent Years (1984-1988)
Chapter 3: The PolyGram Years Part I: Founding a Studio and Making a Subsidiary (1988-1992)
Chapter 4: The PolyGram Years Part II: Development, Green-Lighting and Distribution (1993-1998)
Chapter 5: Swapping Studios (1998-1999)
Chapter 6: The Universal Years Part I: Development, Green-lighting and Distribution (1999-2006)
Chapter 7: The Universal Years Part II (2007-2011)
Chapter 8: The Universal Years Part III (2012-)
Chapter 9: The Global Market for Working Title's Films
Chapter 10: Transatlantic British Cinema: Creative Risk, Commercial risk and the Issue of Diversity
Bibliography