Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film, practical theories of production systems such as film dramaturgy, and the self-theorizing of European auteurs and professionals.

Autorentext
John T. Caldwell, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Bridget Conor, King's College London, UK Philip Drake, Middlesex University, UK Rosalind Gill, King's College London, UK Emmanuel Grimaud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Alessandro Jedlowski, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Sylvie Lindeperg, Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, France Chris Mathieu, Lund University, Sweden Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Daniel Steinhart, independent scholar Sara Malou Strandvad, Roskilde University, Denmark

Inhalt
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