Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures

Author:   P. Szczepanik ,  P. Vonderau
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9781137282170


Pages:   265
Publication Date:   16 December 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film, practical theories of production systems such as film dramaturgy, and the self-theorizing of European auteurs and professionals.

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Author:   P. Szczepanik ,  P. Vonderau
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   5.148kg
ISBN:  

9781137282170


ISBN 10:   1137282177
Pages:   265
Publication Date:   16 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Petr Szczepanik and Patrick Vonderau PART 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 PART II: MODES OF PRODUCTION 6. Stress Aesthetics and Deprivation 'Pay' 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 PART III: THE POLITICS OF CREATIVITY 11. Inequalities in Media Work; Rosalind Gill 12. Subjects At Work: Investigating the Creative Labour of British Screenwriters; Bridget Conor 13. Policy or Practice? Deconstructing Creative Industries; Philip Drake

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'A multi-national European contribution to the research of production studies is a welcome addition to the literature in this growing subfield, and Petr Szczepanik and Patrick Vonderau are just the two to bring it to fruition.' - Jennifer Holt, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Behind the Screen explores the complex plays of power and imagination that shape the production of European film and television. Ranging widely, the authors provide revealing case examples of the diverse contexts in which screen media are conceived and produced. Shrewdly observant and conceptually sophisticated, these essays engage brilliantly with enduring debates about creative labor and cultural authority in modern societies. - Michael Curtin, Mellichamp Professor of Global Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA As cinema studies develops beyond obsessions with meaning and viewing, it is finally returning to the world of work - how are pictures made? This groundbreaking volume is a major contribution to a welcome tendency. - Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA


'A multi-national European contribution to the research of production studies is a welcome addition to the literature in this growing subfield, and Petr Szczepanik and Patrick Vonderau are just the two to bring it to fruition.' - Jennifer Holt, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Behind the Screen explores the complex plays of power and imagination that shape the production of European film and television. Ranging widely, the authors provide revealing case examples of the diverse contexts in which screen media are conceived and produced. Shrewdly observant and conceptually sophisticated, these essays engage brilliantly with enduring debates about creative labor and cultural authority in modern societies. - Michael Curtin, Mellichamp Professor of Global Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA As cinema studies develops beyond obsessions with meaning and viewing, it is finally returning to the world of work - how are pictures made? This groundbreaking volume is a major contribution to a welcome tendency. - Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA


'A multi-national European contribution to the research of production studies is a welcome addition to the literature in this growing subfield, and Petr Szczepanik and Patrick Vonderau are just the two to bring it to fruition.' - Jennifer Holt, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Behind the Screen explores the complex plays of power and imagination that shape the production of European film and television. Ranging widely, the authors provide revealing case examples of the diverse contexts in which screen media are conceived and produced. Shrewdly observant and conceptually sophisticated, these essays engage brilliantly with enduring debates about creative labor and cultural authority in modern societies. - Michael Curtin, Mellichamp Professor of Global Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA As cinema studies develops beyond obsessions with meaning and viewing, it is finally returning to the world of work - how are pictures made? This groundbreaking volume is a major contribution to a welcome tendency. - Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA


"'A multi-national European contribution to the research of production studies is a welcome addition to the literature in this growing subfield, and Petr Szczepanik and Patrick Vonderau are just the two to bring it to fruition.' - Jennifer Holt, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA ""Behind the Screen explores the complex plays of power and imagination that shape the production of European film and television. Ranging widely, the authors provide revealing case examples of the diverse contexts in which screen media are conceived and produced. Shrewdly observant and conceptually sophisticated, these essays engage brilliantly with enduring debates about creative labor and cultural authority in modern societies."" - Michael Curtin, Mellichamp Professor of Global Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA ""As cinema studies develops beyond obsessions with meaning and viewing, it is finally returning to the world of work - how are pictures made? This groundbreaking volume is a major contribution to a welcome tendency."" - Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA"


Author Information

John T. Caldwell, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Bridget Conor, King's College London, UK Philip Drake, Middlesex University, UK Rosalind Gill, King's College London, UK Emmanuel Grimaud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Alessandro Jedlowski, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Sylvie Lindeperg, Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, France Chris Mathieu, Lund University, Sweden Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Daniel Steinhart, independent scholar Sara Malou Strandvad, Roskilde University, Denmark

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