Thomas Ince
Hollywood's Independent Pioneer
by Brian Taves
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Pub Date Dec 01 2011 | Archive Date May 07 2013
University Press of Kentucky | Screen Classics series
Description
Thomas H. Ince (1882–1924) turned movie-making into a business enterprise. Progressing from actor to director and screenwriter, he revolutionized the motion picture industry through developing the role of the producer. In addition to building the first major Hollywood studio facility, dubbed “Inceville,” he was responsible for more than 800 films.
Thomas Ince: Hollywood’s Independent Pioneer chronicles Ince’s life from the stage to his sudden death as he was about to join forces with media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Author Brian Taves explores Ince’s impact on Hollywood’s production system, the Western, his creation of the first American movies starring Asian performers, and his cinematic exploration of the status of women in society.
Until now, Thomas Ince has not been the subject of a biography. This book offers insight into the world of silent cinema through the story of one of its earliest and most influential moguls.
Brian Taves is an archivist with the Library of Congress, where this project began with a staff fellowship award. He is the author of over a hundred articles and six books including P. G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptation; Robert Florey: The French Expressionist; and The Romance of Adventure: The Genre of Historical Adventure Movies. He lives in Culpeper, Virginia.
Advance Praise
"Scholars and historians welcome an authoritative, detailed, and readable study of this neglected film pioneer."
--Richard Koszarski, author of Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff
"Brian Taves has written the first book length study in English of Thomas Ince, the unjustly forgotten producer-director responsible for creating the classical Hollywood studio system of production. Taves' lucid account of a career cut short by a premature death, debunks the many myths surrounding Ince's mysterious last days, while placing Ince in proper perspective as one of Hollywood's greatest early pioneers."
--Jan-Christopher Horak, Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive
"Brian Taves's exhaustive and compelling biography of Thomas Ince documents the career of a valiant independent producer in the early days of Hollywood, a period when the movies became big business. Thanks to Taves's exhaustive research, which documents Ince's working methods, financial arrangements, and filmmaking skills, Ince emerges as a true founder of the industry, along with Adolph Zukor, Carl Laemmle, Cecil B. De Mille and D. W. Griffith."
--Tino Balio, author of The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973
"For more than half a century, film historians all over the world have been awaiting an authoritative and scrupulously researched biography of American film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Brian Taves has achieved this formidable task, patiently researching in the remotest archives in order to give us a vivid and convincing portrayal not only of a neglected filmmaker, but of his flourishing film company and his independent studio. A must for any cinephile’s library."
--Hervé Dumont, author of Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780813134239 |
| PRICE | $39.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 368 |
