The New Entrepreneurs: An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers

by Jon Kraszewski

How television writers thwarted the constraints of corporate culture in the 1950s and flourished

According to the sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1951 book, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, the "new entrepreneur" was a lone wolf able to succeed in post-World War II corporate America by elusively meandering through various institutions. During this time, anthology writers such as Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, and Paddy Chayefsky...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819569461
• ISBN13: 9780819569462
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher