Overview
- Explores how Pinewood came to be Britain’s dominant film studios, focusing on the key years 1936-55
- Provides a new approach to a particular aspect of British film history
- Analyses 12 important British films, some of them considered classics made at Britain’s premier film studios
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This open access book 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 of the studio and its longevity during a particularly turbulentperiod, explaining Pinewood’s survival at a time when other major film studios such as Denham closed. This book also provides contemporary insights into how Pinewood’s technologies, practices, and filmmaking methods compared to Hollywood’s. Thirteen films produced in1946–47 are analysed in detail, tracking how economic pressures engendered many creative techniques 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-depthfocus on the in-house studio magazine Pinewood Merry-Go-Round, which provides rare details of sports and leisure activities organized at the studios.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol. Her publications include British National Cinema (1997), Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA (2002), Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900-55 (2012), Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s (2019, with Joshua Yumibe), and The Eastmancolor Revolution (2021, with Keith M. Johnston, Paul Frith and Carolyn Rickards).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pinewood
Book Subtitle: Anatomy of a Film Studio in Post-war Britain
Authors: Sarah Street
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51307-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51306-0Published: 13 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51309-1Due: 13 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51307-7Published: 12 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 183
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour