Behind the Screen [electronic resource] : Inside European Production Cultures /
Szczepanik, P.editor.
Vonderau, P.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction; Part I: Fields and Approaches; 1 Borderlands, Contact Zones, and Boundary Games: A Conversation with John T. Caldwell; 2 Analyzing Production from a Socio-material Perspective; 3 The "Cultural" of Production and Career; 4 Pacts of Embodiment: A Comparative Ethnography of Filmmakers' Gestures; 5 Film Production as a Palimpsest; Part II: Modes of Production; 6 Stress Aesthetics and Deprivation Payroll Systems; 7 The State-socialist Mode of Production and the Political History of Production Culture
8 A Flexible Mode of Production: Internationalizing Hollywood Filmmaking in Postwar Europe9 A European Take on the Showrunner? Danish Television Drama Production; 10 Exporting Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Europe; Part III: The Politics of Creativity; 11 Inequalities in Media Work; 12 Subjects at Work: Investigating the Creative Labor of British Screenwriters; 13 Policy or Practice? Deconstructing the Creative Industries; Notes on Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.
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.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures—European influences.
Civilization—History.
Directing.
European History.
Modern History.
Film History.
European Cinema and TV.
Cultural History.