In the Studio

Visual Creation and Its Material Environments
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-29759-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

Studios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that generate virtual spaces—worlds built to build worlds. Yet, despite being icons of corporate identity, studios have faded into the background of critical discourse and into the margins of film and media history. In response, In the Studio demonstrates that when we foreground these worlds, we gain new insights into moving-image culture and the dynamics that quietly mark the worlds on our screens. Spanning the twentieth century and moving globally, this unique collection tells new stories about studio icons—Pinewood, Cinecittà, Churubusco, and CBS—as well as about the experimental workplaces of filmmakers and artists from Aleksandr Medvedkin to Charles and Ray Eames and Hollis Frampton.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobson, Brian R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Studio Perspectives

Brian R. Jacobson

PART ONE. FORMATIONS

1. “The Longed-For Crystal Palace”: Empire, Modernity, and Nikkatsu Mukojima’s Glass

Studio, 1913–1923

Diane Wei Lewis

2. Regulating Light, Interiors, and the National Image: Electrification
and Studio Space in 1920s Brazil

Rielle Navitski

3. Ephemeral Studios: Exhibiting Televisual Spaces during the
Interwar Years

Anne-Katrin Weber

PART TWO. FOUNDATIONS

4. Estudios Churubusco: A Transnational Studio for a National Industry

Laura Isabel Serna

5. Pinewood Studios, the Independent Frame, and Innovation

Sarah Street

6. Backlots of the World War: Cinecittà, 1942–1950

Noa Steimatsky

PART THREE. ALTERNATIVE ROUTES

7. The Film Train Stops at Mosfilm: Aleksandr Medvedkin and the Operative Film Factory

Robert Bird

8. Postindustrial Studio Lifestyle: The Eameses in the Environment of 901

Justus Nieland

9. The Last Qualitative Scientist: Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab

Jeff Menne

PART FOUR. STUDIO FUTURES

10. Made-for-Broadcast Cities

Lynn Spigel

11. The Nature of the Firm and the Nature of the Farm: Lucasfilm, the Campus, and the

Contract

J. D. Connor

12. “Make It What You Want It to Be”: Logistics, Labor, and Land Financialization via

the Globalized Free Zone Studio

Kay Dickinson

Selected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian R. Jacobson is Professor of Visual Culture at the California Institute of Technology and the author of Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space.