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Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinema
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- ISBN
- 9780231172806
- Publication Name
- Studios before the System : Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Series
- Film and Culture Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the form, content, and business of the films that were made and the impressions of the people who viewed them. The first book to retell the history of film studio architecture, Studios Before the System expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema's virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developments in global technology and urban modernism. Focusing on six significant early film corporations in the United States and France--the Edison Manufacturing Company, American Mutoscope and Biograph, American Vitagraph, Georges M li s's Star Films, Gaumont, and Path Fr res--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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
023117280x
ISBN-13
9780231172806
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038295839
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Studios before the System : Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Series
Film and Culture Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1993.5.U6j225 2015
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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Studios Before the System offers a fresh, enormously productive and (as it turns out) badly needed perspective on filmmaking before the classical Hollywood studio system was fully established. Examining the buildings where films were made with unprecedented rigor, Jacobson illuminates the many ways in which these architectural spaces determined how subjects were filmed and represented--and the ways the studios themselves shaped the larger system of production and representation as personnel left the studios and moved on location., A breakthrough book-at once a history of technology, cinema, and architecture-showing how they merge in the invention of the cinematic studio in a few wildly innovative years around 1900. Jacobson tells the story of this invention with flair, fluency, and most of all with awareness of its historical significance: by uniting real and virtual space in cinematic space, the studio transformed the human-built world., Rare is the book that justly can be called an instant classic, but Studios Before the System is just that. Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and admirably capacious, it is a landmark study of the built environments of early cinematic production. It is a foundational work that is also a pleasure to read, [An] informative and illuminating history of film studios before 1915. . . . Jacobson makes a significant contribution to film history by emphasising the importance of the earliest studios - their production houses and surrounding infrastructures - as literal sites of cultural production, exploring how architectural design, form and function shaped movie style and practice from the late 1900s and beyond., Studios Before the System is certain to become an indispensable resource for scholars of early cinema. What is more, the new theoretical perspective Jacobson brings to filmmaking during the period has far-reaching ramifications for the history and theory of the art form as a whole.... A work of great originality and insight, which is also brilliantly written and accessible to scholars working in a broad range of academic fields., A truly important book, which will easily find its way to the 'must-read' section in all literature on film studies as well as art and technology studies., A breakthrough book--at once a history of technology, cinema, and architecture--showing how they merge in the invention of the cinematic studio in a few wildly innovative years around 1900. Jacobson tells the story of this invention with flair, fluency, and most of all with awareness of its historical significance: by uniting real and virtual space in cinematic space, the studio transformed the human-built world., Rare is the book that justly can be called an instant classic, but Studios Before the System is just that. Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and admirably capacious, it is a landmark study of the built environments of early cinematic production. Jacobson's masterful command of the histories of architecture, cinema, and technology generates new questions while restoring architectural detail to our understanding of the first film studios. This is a foundational work that is also a pleasure to read., This is an impressive, groundbreaking book that joins other recent revisionist works in offering an innovative notion of early cinema history that has invaluable ramifications for cinema history overall. Furthermore, it promises to make a considerable impact on the study of cinema's profound interrelations with architecture, modern technologies, and urban infrastructure at the beginnings of the 20th century., Studios Before the System offers a fresh, enormously productive and (as it turns out) badly needed perspective on filmmaking before the Classical Hollywood studio system was fully established. Examining the buildings where films were made with unprecedented rigor, Brian Jacobson illuminates the many ways in which these architectural spaces determined how subjects were filmed and so represented--and the ways the studios themselves shaped the larger system of production and representation as personnel left the studios and moved on location., In this excellent book, Jacobson (Univ. of Toronto) blends history and theory to create a landmark study of the very first film studios.... Essential., A breakthrough book--at once a history of technology, of cinema, and of architecture--showing how they merge in the invention of the cinematic studio in a few wildly innovative years around 1900. Jacobson tells the story of this invention with flair, fluency, and most of all with awareness of its historical significance: by uniting real and virtual space in cinematic space, the studio transformed the human-built world.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Studios and Systems 1. Black Boxes and Open-Air Stages: Film Studio Technology and Environmental Control from the Laboratory to the Rooftop 2. Georges Méliès's "Glass House": Cineplasticity for a Human-Built World 3. Dark Studios and Daylight Factories: Building Cinema in New York City 4. Studio Factories and Studio Cities: Paris's Cités du Cinéma and the Inconsistency of Modernity 5. The Studio Beyond the Studio: Nature, Technology, and Location in Southern California Conclusion: More Than "Dream Factories" Notes Films Cited Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Film / Direction & Production, Industries / Entertainment, Film / History & Criticism, Film & Video
Lccn
2015-007610
Dewey Decimal
384/.809730904
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Art, Business & Economics, Performing Arts
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