Daniel Herbert 
Maverick Movies [EPUB ebook] 
New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film

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Maverick Movies tells the improbable story of New Line Cinema, a company that cut a remarkable path through the American film industry and movie culture. Founded in 1967 as an art film distributor, New Line made a small fortune running John Waters’s 
Pink Flamingos at midnight screenings in the 1970s and found reliable returns with the
Nightmare on Elm Street franchise in the 1980s. By 2001, the company competed with the major Hollywood studios and reached global box office success with the
Lord of the Rings franchise. Blurring boundaries between high and low culture, between independent film and Hollywood, and between the margins and the mainstream, New Line Cinema epitomizes Hollywood’s shift in focus from the mass audience fostered by the classic studios to the multitude of niche audiences sought today.

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Daniel Herbert is Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan and author of Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9780520382367 ● File size 10.5 MB ● Publisher University of California Press ● Published 2023 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9149430 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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