Maverick Movies, New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film

Author

Herbert; Daniel

Year

2024

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-0-52038-236-7

Link

Last Update

01-Aug-2026

Keywords

Film Studies ; History ; American Studies ; Art & Art History ; Cultural Studies

Description

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...