In the Studio
Visual Creation and Its Material Environments
1st Edition
Published on 21. July 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
324 pages
978-0-520-29760-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. Yet, despite being icons of corporate identity, studios have faded into the background of critical discourse and into the margins of film and media history. In response, In the Studio demonstrates that when we foreground these worlds, we gain new insights into moving-image culture and the dynamics that quietly mark the worlds on our screens. Spanning the twentieth century and moving globally, this unique collection tells new stories about studio icons-Pinewood, Cinecitta, Churubusco, and CBS-as well as about the experimental workplaces of filmmakers and artists from Aleksandr Medvedkin to Charles and Ray Eames and Hollis Frampton.
Reviews / Votes
"Consumers in the 1930s understood the importance of the studio; In the Studio argues that contemporary scholars of film and media studies should follow suit. The volume makes an important contribution to these disciplines, helping to advance a new subfield by showing how an emphasis on the material spaces of production expands or nuances our understanding of cinema and television." * The Moving Image * "It is certain that In the Studio's holistic methodology will provide a blueprint for the still vital research on the material environments that shape our media." * Screen *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
44 b-w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-29760-9 (9780520297609)
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Person
Brian R. Jacobson is Professor of Visual Culture at the California Institute of Technology and the author of Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Studio Perspectives
Brian R. Jacobson
PART ONE. FORMATIONS
1. "The Longed-For Crystal Palace": Empire, Modernity, and Nikkatsu Mukojima's Glass
Studio, 1913-1923
Diane Wei Lewis
2. Regulating Light, Interiors, and the National Image: Electrification
and Studio Space in 1920s Brazil
Rielle Navitski
3. Ephemeral Studios: Exhibiting Televisual Spaces during the
Interwar Years
Anne-Katrin Weber
PART TWO. FOUNDATIONS
4. Estudios Churubusco: A Transnational Studio for a National Industry
Laura Isabel Serna
5. Pinewood Studios, the Independent Frame, and Innovation
Sarah Street
6. Backlots of the World War: Cinecitta, 1942-1950
Noa Steimatsky
PART THREE. ALTERNATIVE ROUTES
7. The Film Train Stops at Mosfilm: Aleksandr Medvedkin and the Operative Film Factory
Robert Bird
8. Postindustrial Studio Lifestyle: The Eameses in the Environment of 901
Justus Nieland
9. The Last Qualitative Scientist: Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab
Jeff Menne
PART FOUR. STUDIO FUTURES
10. Made-for-Broadcast Cities
Lynn Spigel
11. The Nature of the Firm and the Nature of the Farm: Lucasfilm, the Campus, and the
Contract
J. D. Connor
12. "Make It What You Want It to Be": Logistics, Labor, and Land Financialization via
the Globalized Free Zone Studio
Kay Dickinson
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Introduction: Studio Perspectives
Brian R. Jacobson
PART ONE. FORMATIONS
1. "The Longed-For Crystal Palace": Empire, Modernity, and Nikkatsu Mukojima's Glass
Studio, 1913-1923
Diane Wei Lewis
2. Regulating Light, Interiors, and the National Image: Electrification
and Studio Space in 1920s Brazil
Rielle Navitski
3. Ephemeral Studios: Exhibiting Televisual Spaces during the
Interwar Years
Anne-Katrin Weber
PART TWO. FOUNDATIONS
4. Estudios Churubusco: A Transnational Studio for a National Industry
Laura Isabel Serna
5. Pinewood Studios, the Independent Frame, and Innovation
Sarah Street
6. Backlots of the World War: Cinecitta, 1942-1950
Noa Steimatsky
PART THREE. ALTERNATIVE ROUTES
7. The Film Train Stops at Mosfilm: Aleksandr Medvedkin and the Operative Film Factory
Robert Bird
8. Postindustrial Studio Lifestyle: The Eameses in the Environment of 901
Justus Nieland
9. The Last Qualitative Scientist: Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab
Jeff Menne
PART FOUR. STUDIO FUTURES
10. Made-for-Broadcast Cities
Lynn Spigel
11. The Nature of the Firm and the Nature of the Farm: Lucasfilm, the Campus, and the
Contract
J. D. Connor
12. "Make It What You Want It to Be": Logistics, Labor, and Land Financialization via
the Globalized Free Zone Studio
Kay Dickinson
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index