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[Commlist] New book on Pinewood Studios

Mon Mar 18 18:53:28 GMT 2024






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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