The new entrepreneurs : an institutional history of television anthology writers
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The new entrepreneurs : an institutional history of television anthology writers
（Wesleyan film / edited by Jeanine Basinger）
Wesleyan University Press, c2010
- : cloth : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction
- Between the television and book publishing industries : anthology writers and their struggle for authorial identities
- Between the television and theater industries : representations of race in Rod Serling's "Noon on doomsday"
- Between the television and motion picture industries : Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty" as art cinema
- New strategies for entrepreneurship : Reginald Rose, The defenders, and the 1960s television industry
- A new zone of production? Rod Serling's attempt to redefine the role of the writer in the 1960s television industry
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Description
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.
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