Behind the screen : inside European production cultures / edited by Petr Szczepanik and Patrick Vonderau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Szczepanik, Petr, editor.

Vonderau, Patrick, editor.

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Series:

Global cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction--Europe.

Motion pictures.

Television--Production and direction--Europe.

Television.

Motion picture industry--Europe.

Motion picture industry.

Television broadcasting--Europe.

Television broadcasting.

Television--Production and direction.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Production studies has developed into an interdisciplinary field of inquiry of film and television "production cultures," going beyond traditional examinations of authorship and industry structure. Studying production as culture involves gathering empirical data about the lived realities of people involved in media production - about collaboration and conflicts, routines and rituals, lay theories and performative actions. This volume broadens the scope of production studies by analyzing geographic and historical alternatives to contemporary Hollywood. At the same time, it invites disciplines such as ethnography, aesthetics, and sociology of art to reconsider established concepts of film and media studies like creative agency, genesis of a film work, or transnational production. Book jacket.

Contents:

pt. I Fields and Approaches. 1. Borderlands, Contact Zones, and Boundary Games: A Conversation with John T. Caldwell / Patrick Vonderau

2. Analyzing Production from a Socio-material Perspective / Sara Malou Strandvad

3. The "Cultural" of Production and Career / Chris Mathieu

4. Pacts of Embodiment: A Comparative Ethnography of Filmmakers' Gestures / Emmanuel Grimaud

5. Film Production as a Palimpsest / Sylvie Lindeperg

pt. II Modes of Production. 6. Stress Aesthetics and Deprivation Payroll Systems / John T. Caldwell

7. The State-socialist Mode of Production and the Political History of Production Culture / Petr Szczepanik

8. A Flexible Mode of Production: Internationalizing Hollywood Filmmaking in Postwar Europe / Daniel Steinhart

9. A European Take on the Showrunner? Danish Television Drama Production / Eva Novrup Redvall

10. Exporting Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Europe / Alessandro Jedlowski

pt. III The Politics of Creativity. 11. Inequalities in Media Work / Rosalind Gill

12. Subjects at Work: Investigating the Creative Labor of British Screenwriters / Bridget Conor

13. Policy or Practice? Deconstructing the Creative Industries / Philip Drake.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

ISBN:

9781137282170

1137282177

OCLC:

851642783

Publisher Number:

99968384255