Description: Further DetailsTitle: Studios Before the SystemCondition: NewEAN: 9780231172806ISBN: 9780231172806Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/01/2015Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Brian R. JacobsonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic SpaceISBN-10: 023117280XDescription: 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 Melies's Star Films, Gaumont, and Pathe Freres-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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Film and Culture SeriesGenre: Films & TVTopic: Architecture & AntiquesRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Studios Before the System
Title: Studios Before the System
EAN: 9780231172806
ISBN: 9780231172806
Release Date: 09/01/2015
Release Year: 2015
Subtitle: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
ISBN-10: 023117280X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Films & TV
Topic: Architecture & Antiques
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Studios before the System : Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Film / Direction & Production, Industries / Entertainment, Film / History & Criticism, Film & Video
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.1 Oz
Subject Area: Art, Performing Arts, Business & Economics
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Brian Jacobson
Series: Film and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
