[Commlist] New book on Pinewood Studios

Download for free Sarah Street’s new book, just published in Open Access!



https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-51307-7



Pinewood: Anatomy of a Film Studio in Post-war Britain examines how 
Pinewood came to be Britain’s dominant film studio complex, focusing on 
key years following the Second World War. It presents a revisionist, 
micro history organized around key themes that are crucial to 
understanding the studios’ longevity during a particularly turbulent 
period. Pinewood’s survival at a time when other major film studios such 
as Denham closed, is explained. The book examines contemporary insights 
into how Pinewood’s technologies and practices compared to Hollywood’s 
when filmmaking methods were being scrutinized. Thirteen films produced 
in 1946-7 are analysed in detail, including Green for Danger, Great 
Expectations, Take My Life, Blanche Fury, Esther Waters, London Belongs 
to Me and The Red Shoes. Documenting the challenges of producing films 
within a culture of constraint reveals how economic pressures engendered 
many creative techniques, ingenious set designs and innovative 
technologies. Prevailing cultures of management and labour organization 
are foregrounded, as well as insights into being a studio employee. 
These are vividly brought to life through an in-depth focus on the 
in-house studio magazine the Pinewood Merry-Go Round which provides rare 
details of sports and leisure activities organized at the studios. 
Pinewood’s resilience, it is argued, is fundamentally rooted in its 
physical infrastructure, material practices and the many skilled people 
who contributed so much to its historical development.
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