Doing the Deal: Talent Contracts in Hollywood
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 253099
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Hollywood and the Law
- Publisher
- British Film Institute
- ISBN
- 9781844574773
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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E - Media
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This chapter presents original research drawing on archival materials at the Special Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Warner Bros. archives in Los Angeles, funded by the Carnegie Trust and Royal Society of Edinburgh. Using original contract files, legal documents, court transcripts and letters, it analyses talent contract law in Hollywood and the evolution of the 7 year contract, drawing on two pivotal cases - the De Havilland decision and the Paramount Buchwald case. It offers a detailed analysis of the historical development of Hollywood talent contracts, an area largely ignored in previous studies, and argues for the analysis of agents and lawyers as cultural intermediaries. The research was presented globally, including at Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Network for European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) and Screen conferences (2009-14), plus invited research papers at the University of Glasgow and UCL, and connects to wider research done by the author on the history of talent contracts in Hollywood.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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