“Behind the Screen explores the complex plays of power and imagination that shape the production of European film and television. Ranging widely, the authors provide revealing case examples of the diverse contexts in which screen media are conceived and produced. Shrewdly observant and conceptually sophisticated, these essays engage brilliantly with enduring debates about creative labor and cultural authority in modern societies.” – Michael Curtin, Mellichamp Professor of Global Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
BEHIND THE SCREEN: INSIDE EUROPEAN PRODUCTION CULTURES
Ed. by Petr Szczepanik & Patrick Vonderau
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014
Introduction; Petr Szczepanik and Patrick Vonderau
PART I: FIELDS AND APPROACHES
1. Borderlands, Contact Zones, and Boundary Games: A Conversation with John T. Caldwell; Patrick Vonderau
2. Analyzing Production from a Socio-Material Perspective; Sara Malou Strandvad
3. The ‘Cultural’ of Production and Career; Chris Mathieu
4. Pacts of Embodiment: A Comparative Ethnography of Filmmakers’ Gestures; Emmanuel Grimaud
5. Film Production as a Palimpsest; Sylvie Lindeperg
PART II: MODES OF PRODUCTION
6. Stress Aesthetics and Deprivation ‘Pay’ Systems; John T. Caldwell
7. The State-Socialist Mode of Production and the Political History of Production Culture; Petr Szczepanik
8. A Flexible Mode of Production: Internationalizing Hollywood Filmmaking in Postwar Europe; Daniel Steinhart
9. A European Take on the Showrunner? Danish Television Drama Production; Eva Novrup Redvall
10. Exporting Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Europe; Alessandro Jedlowski
PART III: THE POLITICS OF CREATIVITY
11. Inequalities in Media Work; Rosalind Gill
12. Subjects At Work: Investigating the Creative Labour of British Screenwriters; Bridget Conor
13. Policy or Practice? Deconstructing Creative Industries; Philip Drake
Publisher website: http://us.macmillan.com/behindthescreen/PetrSzczepanik
