In the studio : visual creation and its material environments /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Description:	viii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Motion picture studios -- History -- 20th century. Motion picture studios. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12410045

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Other authors / contributors:	Jacobson, Brian R., editor.
ISBN:	9780520297593 0520297598 9780520297609 0520297601 9780520969896
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Studios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that generate virtual spaces-worlds built to build worlds. On the outside, they have become icons of corporate identity, while on the inside, they have remained invisible in order to be seen. As such, they have actively faded into the background of critical discourse and into the margins of film and media history. Recovering their hidden role in the history of visual creation, In the Studio demonstrates that when we foreground these worlds, we gain new insights into moving-image culture and the material, ecological, social, political, and economic dynamics that quietly mark the worlds on our screens. Spanning the twentieth century and moving globally, from Japan to Brazil, Mexico to Moscow, and Hollywood to Dubai, this unique collection tells new stories about studio icons--Pinewood, Cinecittà, Churubusco, and CBS--as well as the experimental workplaces of filmmakers and artists from Aleksandr Medvedkin to Charles and Ray Eames and Hollis Frampton"--
Other form:	Online version: In the studio Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520969896

Table of Contents:

Introduction : studio perspectives / Brian R. Jacobson
"The longed-for Crystal Palace" : empire, modernity, and Nikkatsu Mukōjima's glass studio, 1913-1923 / Diane Wei Lewis
Regulating light, interiors, and the national image : electrification and studio space in 1920s Brazil / Rielle Navitski
Ephemeral studios : exhibiting televisual spaces during the interwar years / Anne-Katrin Weber
Estudios churubusco : a transnational studio for a national industry / Laura Isabel Serna
Pinewood studios, the independent frame, and innovation / Sarah Street
Backlots of the world war : Cinecittà 1942-1950 / Noa Steimatsky
The film train stops at Mosfilm : Aleksandr Medvedkin and the operative film factory / Robert Bird
Postindustrial studio lifestyle : the Eameses in the environment of 901 / Justus Nieland
The last qualitative scientist : Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab / Jeff Menne
Made-for-broadcast cities / Lynn Spigel
The nature of the firm and the nature of the farm : Lucasfilm, the campus, and the contract / J.D. Connor
"Make it what you want it to be" : logistics, labor and land financialization via the globalized free zone studio / Kay Dickinson.

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