Main entry:

Jacobson, Brian R., author.

Title & Author:

Studios before the system : architecture, technology, and the emergence of cinematic space / Brian R. Jacobson.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Description:

xii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Film and culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286) and index.
Includes filmography.
Introduction: studios and systems -- Black boxes and open-air stages: film studio technology and environmental control from the laboratory to the rooftop -- Georges Méliès's "glass house": cineplasticity for a human-built world -- Dark studios and daylight factories: building cinema in New York City -- Studio factories and studio cities: Paris's cités du cinéma and the inconsistency of modernity -- The studio beyond the studio: nature, technology, and location in Southern California -- Conclusion: more than "dream factories."

Summary:

"Focusing on six significant early film corporations in the United States and France--the Edison Manufacturing Company, American Mutoscope and Biograph, American Vitagraph, Georges Méliès's Star Films, Gaumont, and Pathé Frères--as well as smaller producers and film companies, Studios Before the System describes how filmmakers first envisioned the space they needed and then sourced modern materials to create novel film worlds. Artificially reproducing the natural environment, film studios helped usher in the world's Second Industrial Revolution and what Lewis Mumford would later call the "specific art of the machine." From housing workshops for set, prop, and costume design to dressing rooms and writing departments, studio architecture was always present though rarely visible to the average spectator in the twentieth century, providing the scaffolding under which culture, film aesthetics, and our relation to lived space took shape."--Cover.

Resources:
Volltext
URL des Erstveröffentlichers

ISBN:

9780231172806 (cloth ; alk. paper)
023117280X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231172813 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0231172818 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9780231539661
0231539665
9780231539661

Subject:

Motion picture studios United States History 20th century.
Motion picture industry History 20th century.
Studios de cinéma États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Cinéma Industrie Histoire 20e siècle.
Motion picture industry.
Motion picture studios.
Architektur
Filmstudio
Filmtechnik
Filmindustrin, USA.
United States.
Frankreich
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Film and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292675
Call No.: BIB 237064
Status: Available