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Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy: Architecture, Innovation, Labour, Politics, 1930-60

By (author) Sarah Street, By (author) Tim Bergfelder, By (author) Richard Farmer, By (author) Eleanor Halsall, By (author) Sue Harris, By (author) Morgan Lefeuvre, By (author) Carla Mereu Keating, By (author) Dr. Catherine O'Rawe

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This open access book investigates film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy between the 1930s and 1960s. During this time, studios faces unprecedented challenges including wartime disruptions, post-war fragmentation, movement of labour and the introduction of new technologies. While the study of film studios has been dominated by the centralized Hollywood â€˜studio systemâ€™, the authors present new research about the often very different histories of Europeâ€™s film studios, comparing their geographic locations, architectures and infrastructural development. They explore a number of well-known studios including Pinewood, Joinville, Babelsberg and CinecittÃ , as well as lesser-known production sites such as Manchester, Victorine, post-war West German studios and Tirrenia as diverse creative and economic infrastructures. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, photographs, films, aerial maps and visualizations, the book charts how artistic practices responded to transnational flows in film studio expertise, as studios constituted formative, materially based â€˜spaces of the imaginationâ€™ that produced some of cinemaâ€™s most influential films. How studios worked in the past as dynamic, creative working environments that were profoundly influenced by their locations, architectures and personnel, is foregrounded as the authors produce new understandings of how the collaborative and material environments of studio spaces and technologies shaped film production and cultures. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.