In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520297593)

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.


Author: Brian R. Jacobson
ISBN-10: 0520297598
ISBN-13: 9780520297593
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2020
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d