Maverick movies : New Line Cinema and the transformation of American film / Daniel Herbert.
"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 i...
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University of California Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : New Line Cinema and the shape of the modern movie business
- "Take a film where it will be most appreciated" : the first decade of New Line Cinema
- "So-called ancillary markets" : New Line takes the margins to the mainstream
- "Evolutions of identity" : New Line and the transformative 1990s
- "Upscale" Cinema : Fine Line Features and the indie boom of the 1990s
- One franchise to rule them all : New Line and The Lord of the Rings
- Conclusion : legends of the film industry.