Hollywood on Location

An Industry History

Joshua Gleich, Lawrence Webb, Jennifer Lynn Peterson , Sheri Chinen Biesen

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Rutgers University Press
14 January 2019

History of architecture; Theatre: technical & background skills; Film theory & criticism; Film movie production: technical skills; Media studies

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.

Contributions by: Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Sheri Chinen Biesen, Noelle Griffis
Edited by: Joshua Gleich, Lawrence Webb
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 313g
ISBN: 9780813586250
ISBN 10: 0813586259
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 14 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Introduction Joshua Gleich and Lawrence Webb 1. The Silent Era, 1895-1927 Jennifer Peterson 2. Classical Hollywood, 1928-1945 Sheri Chinen Biesen 3. Postwar Hollywood, 1945-1967, Part 1: Domestic Location Shooting Joshua Gleich 4. Postwar Hollywood, 1945-1967, Part 2: Foreign Location Shooting Daniel Steinhart 5. The Auteur Renaissance, 1968-1979 Lawrence Webb 6. The New Hollywood, 1980-1999 Noelle Griffis 7. The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000-Present Julian Stringer Notes on Contributors

JOSHUA GLEICH is an assistant professor in the School of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Arizona. He is author of Hollywood in San Francisco: Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline. LAWRENCE WEBB is a lecturer in film studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. He is author of The Cinema of Urban Crisis: Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City.

Reviews for Hollywood on Location: An Industry History

Joshua Gleich and Lawrence Webb have edited an exemplary book of essays on Hollywood location filming. It is chronologically comprehensive in its covering the US film industry from the silent era to contemporary productions, as well as unfailingly astute and insightful. This is a book that all who are interested in US commercial film should read--scholars, students, and fans alike. --Stanley Corkin author of Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s Location filmmaking evokes a wide range of contradictory meanings--from the roughness of the handheld action scene to the technical polish of the runaway production, from the specific rendering of place in the regional drama to the anonymous depiction of the generic modern city in the contemporary international production. Drawing on archival research and close readings of dozens of films, Hollywood on Location offers a new history of location filmmaking, doing full justice to this complexity. Carefully distinguishing Hollywood location work from various alternatives, such as Neorealism and the New Wave, the authors show how the economics, technology, aesthetics, and logistics of location filmmaking developed over the course of a century--before, during, and after the studio system. --Patrick Keating editor of Cinematography