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Stimato come uno dei registi americani più influenti e innovativi, Francis Ford Coppolalo lo è anche come autore indipendente sempre in guerra con la struttura di potere di Hollywood e la feroce critica all'America corporativa postindustriale che la stessa Hollywood simboleggia. Jeff Menne analizza la carriera di Coppola da una prospettiva postmodernista e Hollywood e la sua casa di produzione American Zoetrope come sistemi di produzione. Di c...

Reading auteur theory as the new American business theory, the author reveals how Coppola's vision of a new kind of company has transformed the worker into a liberated and well-utilized artist, but has also commodified individual creativity at a level unprecedented in corporate history.

Jeff Menne rewrites the history of the New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s, arguing that auteur theory served to reconcile directors to Hollywood's corporate project. Post-Fordist Cinema sheds new light on the cultural myth of the great director and the birth of the "creative economy.

The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary. This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing stress on especially iconic presidents such as Lincoln and FDR. The contributions to this collection probe the rich interactions between these high institutions of culture and politics¿H...

Jeff Menne is assistant professor of screen studies and English at Oklahoma State University.

The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary. This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing stress on especially iconic presidents such as Lincoln and FDR. The contributions to this collection probe the rich interactions between these high institutions of culture and politics¿H...