Hollywood on Location : An Industry History / Joshua Gleich, Lawrence Webb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biesen, Sheri Chinen

Gleich, Joshua, Editor.

Griffis, Noelle

Peterson, Jennifer Lynn

Steinhart, Daniel

Stringer, Julian

Webb, Lawrence, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.) : 25 ill

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this production practice has been scattered across the margins of larger American film histories. Hollywood on Location is the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how location filmmaking supplemented and later, supplanted production on the studio lots. Drawing on archival research and in-depth case studies, the seven contributors show how location shooting expanded the geography of American film production, from city streets and rural landscapes to far-flung territories overseas, invoking a new set of creative, financial, technical, and logistical challenges. Whereas studio filmmaking sought to recreate nature, location shooting sought to master it, finding new production values and production economies that reshaped Hollywood's modus operandi.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. The Silent Screen, 1895-1927

2. The Classical Hollywood Studio System, 1928-1945

3. Postwar Hollywood, 1945-1967, Part 1: Domestic Location Shooting

4. Postwar Hollywood, 1945-1967, Part 2: Foreign Location Shooting

5. The Auteur Renaissance, 1968-1979

6. The New Hollywood, 1980-1999

7. The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000-Present

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-8135-8628-3

OCLC:

1124761867