Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Lienemann Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu An unexpected history of the ³new Hollywood² HOLLYWOOD INDEPENDENT: The Postwar Talent Takeover Denise Mann University of Minnesota Press | 336 pages | 2008 ISBN 978-0-8166-4540-4 | hardcover | $75.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-4541-1 | paperback | $25.00 Commerce and Mass Culture Series Hollywood Independents explores the period from 1948 to 1962 when independent film producers first became key components of the modern corporate entertainment industry. Denise Mann examines the impact of the radically changed filmmaking climate‹the decline of the studios, the rise of television, and the rise of potent talent agencies‹on a group of prominent talent-turned-producers, including Burt Lancaster, Elia Kazan, and Billy Wilder. "Denise Mann¹s Hollywood Independents takes a fresh look at this intermediate era, the valley between classic Hollywood and the New Wave¹s peaks, and finds an industry simultaneously in turmoil and in the midst of impressive artistic ferment. Mann¹s book captures the desperation, and the enthusiasm, of an industry reinventing itself." ‹Boston Globe "A significant and needed contribution to the study of the left in Hollywood during the 1950s. Denise Mann brilliantly engages in close analyses of key films to reveal how both cultural and institutional factors shape their production." ‹Robert Kapsis, author of Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book¹s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/mann_hollywood.html For more information on the Commerce and Mass Culture Series: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/commerce.html >> Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]