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Engineering Hollywood - Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System (Hardcover)
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Engineering Hollywood - Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System (Hardcover)
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Engineering Hollywood tells the story of the formation of the
Hollywood studio system not as the product of a genius producer,
but as an industry that brought together creative practices and
myriad cutting-edge technologies in ways that had never been seen
before. Using extensive archival research, this book examines the
role of technicians, engineers, and trade organizations in creating
a stable technological infrastructure on which the studio system
rested for decades. Here, the studio system is seen as a
technology-dependent business with connections to the larger
American industrial world. By focusing on the role played by
technology, we see a new map of the studio system beyond the
backlots of Los Angeles and the front offices in New York. In this
study, Hollywood includes the labs of industrial manufacturers, the
sales routes of independent firms, the garages of tinkerers, and
the clubhouses of technicians' societies. Rather than focusing on
the technical improvements in any particular motion picture tool,
this book centers on the larger systems and infrastructures for
dealing with technology in this creative industry. Engineering
Hollywood argues that the American industry was stabilized and able
to dominate the motion picture field for decades through
collaboration over technologies of everyday use. Hollywood's
relationship to its essential technology was fundamentally one of
interdependence and cooperation-with manufacturers, trade
organizations, and the competing studios. As such, Hollywood could
be defined as an industry by participation in a closed system of
cooperation that allowed a select group of producers and
manufacturers to dominate the motion picture business for decades.
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