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Studios before the system : architecture, technology, and the emergence of cinematic space / Brian R. Jacobson.
LIBRA PN1993.5.U6 J225 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobson, Brian R., author.
- Series:
- Film and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture studios--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion picture studios.
- Motion picture industry--History--20th century.
- Motion picture industry.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Focusing on six significant early film corporations in the United States and France-the Edison Company, American Mutoscope and Biograph, American Vitagraph, Georges Méliès's Star Films, Gaumont, and Pathé Frères-as well as the first producers in Southern California, Studios Before the System describes how filmmakers first envisioned the space they needed and sourced modern materials to create novel film worlds. Artificially reproducing the natural environment, film studios helped usher in the world's Second Industrial Revolution and what Lewis Mumford would later call the "specific art of the machine." Studio architecture was always present though rarely visible to the average spectator in the twentieth century, providing the scaffolding tinder which culture, film aesthetics, and our relation to lived space took shape. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: studios and systems
- Black boxes and open-air stages: film studio technology and environmental control from the laboratory to the rooftop
- Georges Méliès's "glass house": cineplasticity for a human-built world
- Dark studios and daylight factories: building cinema in New York City
- Studio factories and studio cities: Paris's cités du cinéma and the inconsistency of modernity
- The studio beyond the studio: nature, technology, and location in Southern California
- Conclusion: more than "dream factories".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231172806
- 023117280X
- 9780231172813
- 0231172818
- OCLC:
- 904715516
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