The Film Studio sheds new light on the evolution of global film production, highlighting the role of film studios worldwide. The authors explore the contemporary international production environment, alleging that global competition is best understood as an unequal and unstable partnership between the 'design interest' of footloose producers and the 'location interest' of local actors. Ben Goldsmith and Tom O'Regan identify various types of film studios and investigate the consequences for Hollywood, international film production, and the studio locations.
Ben Goldsmith is a lecturer in the Centre for Screen Studies and Research at the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School in Sydney, Australia. Tom O'Regan is professor of media and cultural studies in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland.
Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1 International Production and GlobalizationChapter 4 2 Types of StudioChapter 5 3 Studios, the "Location Interest," and PolicyChapter 6 4 Studios, Stargates, and Urban ReimaginingChapter 7 5 Extreme Dreams in Satellite Locations: The Rise of the Greenfields StudioChapter 8 6 From National to International Film StudiosChapter 9 7 Still Exceptional? London's Film StudiosChapter 10 8 "The Same but Different!": Canadian Studios and International ProductionChapter 11 9 Still the Center: Studios and the United StatesChapter 12 BibliographyChapter 13 IndexChapter 14 About the Authors
The book's strategy—positioning the studio at the centre of current international production—permits a very persuasive and useful analysis of where the industry (in the largest sense) is now and how it got here.