Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures

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