{"product_id":"studios-before-the-system-brian-jacobson-9780231172813","title":"Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 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, \u003ci\u003eStudios Before the System\u003c\/i\u003e expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema's virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developments in global technology and urban modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing 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, \u003ci\u003eStudios Before the System\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231172818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231172813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2015","brand":"Brian Jacobson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946364141823,"sku":"9780231172813","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4067ead5-f936-422c-aae8-622e57acefdd.jpg?v=1681512724","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/studios-before-the-system-brian-jacobson-9780231172813","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}