Pinewood

Anatomy of a Film Studio in Post-war Britain
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-51309-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 183 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

This open access book examines how Pinewood came to be Britain’s dominant film studio complex, focusing on key years following the Second World War. It presents a revisionist, micro history of the studio and its longevity during a particularly turbulentperiod, explaining Pinewood’s survival at a time when other major film studios such as Denham closed. This book also provides contemporary insights into how Pinewood’s technologies, practices, and filmmaking methods compared to Hollywood’s. Thirteen films produced in1946–47 are analysed in detail, tracking how economic pressures engendered many creative techniques and innovative technologies. Prevailing cultures of management and labour organization are foregrounded, as well as insights into being a studio employee. These are vividly brought to life through an in-depthfocus on the in-house studio magazine Pinewood Merry-Go-Round, which provides rare details of sports and leisure activities organized at the studios.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Street, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Setting the film studio stage.- 2. Cultures of innovation at Pinewood.-3. In the studio and on location 1.- 4. In the studio and on location 2.- 5. Managerial culture and labour relations at Pinewood.- 6. Cultural life at Pinewood.- 7. Anatomy of Pinewood in transition.- Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol. Her publications include British National Cinema (1997), Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA (2002), Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900-55 (2012), Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s (2019, with Joshua Yumibe), and The Eastmancolor Revolution (2021, with Keith M. Johnston, Paul Frith and Carolyn Rickards).