[Commlist] New book: Hollywood Independent

Paul Kerr is pleased to announce the publication of a new book:

Hollywood Independent: How the Mirisch Company Changed Cinema: Paul 
Kerr: Bloomsbury Academic 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hollywood-independent-9781501336751/>

/Hollywood Independent /dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most 
successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, 
producing classic films like /The Apartment/ (1960), /West Side 
Story/ (1961), /The Great Escape/ (1963) and /The Thomas Crown Affair 
/(1968) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the 
names of a new generation of stars including Steve McQueen and Shirley 
MacLaine, as well as banking on the reputations of established auteurs 
like Billy Wilder, they were also pioneers in dealing with controversial 
new themes with films about race (/In the Heat of the Night/), gender 
(/Some Like it Hot/) and sexuality (/The Children's Hour/), devising new 
ways of working with film franchises (/The Magnificent Seven, The Pink 
Panther/ and /In the Heat of the Night/ spun off 7 Mirisch sequels 
between them) cinematic cycles and bi-media brands (/The Pink Panther/, 
/Rat Patrol/), investing in IP with adaptations of bestsellers and 
Broadway hits, exploiting frozen funds abroad and exploring so-called 
runaway productions. The Mirisch Company bridges the gap between the end 
of the studio system in about 1960 and the emergence of a new cinema in 
the mid-1970s, associated with the Movie Brats.


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