Author
Herbert; Daniel
Year
2024
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
14
ISBN
978-0-52038-236-7
Last Update
03-Nov-2024
Keywords
Film Studies ; History ; American Studies ; Art & Art History ; Cultural Studies
From its founding in 1967 to its manifest dismantling in 2008, New Line Cinema cut a remarkable path through the American film business and movie culture. Over this forty-year run, New Line achieved impressive and often surprising successes, explored odd detours, experienced massive setbacks, and mounted crazy comebacks. Subsisting at the fringes of the movie business from the late 1960s through the 1970s, serving the college campus market and the midnight movie circuit with second-string art films and the shock films of John Waters, New Line found reliable returns with the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise in the 1980s. The...
