In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments

In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments
ISBN-10
0520297601
ISBN-13
9780520297609
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
333
Language
English
Published
2020-07-21
Publisher
University of California Press
Author
Brian R. Jacobson

Description

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.

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