In this Book
- The New Entrepreneurs: An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Film
summary
According to the sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1951 book, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, the “new entrepreneur” was a lone wolf able to succeed in post–World War II corporate America by elusively meandering through various institutions. During this time, anthology writers such as Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, and Paddy Chayefsky achieved a level of creativity that has rarely been equaled on television since. Yet despite their success, anthology writers still needed to evade the constraints and censorship of 50s television in order to stay true to their creative powers and political visions. Thus they worked as new entrepreneurs who adapted their more controversial scripts for the Hollywood, Broadway, and book publishing industries. Even after the television networks cancelled their prestigious anthology series at the end of the 50s, the most resilient writers were able to redefine what it meant to be entrepreneurs by launching cutting-edge shows such as The Twilight Zone and The Defenders that are still popular today. The New Entrepreneurs includes detailed textual analysis of legendary, sometimes hard-to-find, television anthology scripts that have received only cursory glances in television history until now.
Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.
Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- p. viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-25
- Bibliography
- pp. 195-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819571038
Related ISBN(s)
9780819569462
MARC Record
OCLC
726747529
Pages
236
Launched on MUSE
2012-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No