Hollywood on Location: An Industry History

By: and and and and

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Synopsis
Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this production practice has been scattered across the margins of larger American film histories. Hollywood on Location is the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how location filmmaking supplemented and later, supplanted production on the studio lots. Drawing on archival research and in-depth case studies, the seven contributors show how location shooting expanded the geography of American film production, from city streets and rural landscapes to far-flung territories overseas, invoking a new set of creative, financial, technical, and logistical challenges. Whereas studio filmmaking sought to recreate nature, location shooting sought to master it, finding new production values and production economies that reshaped Hollywood’s modus operandi.
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780813586274
Related ISBNs:
9780813586267, 9780813586250
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Rutgers University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Travel, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater
Grade Levels:
Eleventh grade
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Joshua Gleich
Edited by:
Lawrence Webb

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