Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System

ISBN-13: 9780190885595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str.

Luci Marzola

Recenzje

We know about the star system. We know about the studio system. But we know virtually nothing about the dynamic technological systems that made Hollywood possible in the first place. This essential book closes that gap, telling a crucial story about America's first creative industry to integrate and spectacularize technological change. Silicon Valley take note. Marzola provides a breathtaking view to another hub of American innovation, one that fuelled the global rise of another uniquely American industry.

O autorze

Luci Marzola is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California Irvine. She was the recipient of a 2010-2020 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Her work on early Hollywood technology and infrastructure has been published in Film History, The Velvet Light Trap, and American Cinematographer and is forthcoming in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television and the Oxford Handbook to Silent Cinema.