Descripción del proyecto
La transformación de la industria cinematográfica europea del pasado
Entre 1930 y 1960, la industria cinematográfica europea prosperó en Gran Bretaña, Francia, Alemania e Italia. Sin embargo, existe una brecha de conocimiento sobre los factores que influyeron en el sector debido a las circunstancias de la guerra y a los acontecimientos de la posguerra, entre los que se incluyen los cambios políticos, el movimiento obrero y la introducción de nuevas tecnologías. El proyecto STUDIOTEC, financiado con fondos europeos, sugiere una nueva metodología basada en la comparación de datos empíricos y procesos transnacionales. El proyecto estudiará los estudios cinematográficos como estructuras artísticas y empresariales y evaluará cómo el movimiento transnacional afectó a los actos creativos. La investigación se basará en temas interrelacionados como las infraestructuras del estudio, la creatividad artística, el papel de la política, la economía y las relaciones laborales.
Objetivo
This project investigates film studios across four major European production sites: Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930-60. During these years studios were transformed as they responded to challenges including wartime disruptions, post-war fragmentation, movement of labour and the introduction of new technologies. While these countries have attracted their own historical literatures, this project proposes for the first time their comparative analysis from the perspective of film studio tectonics, cultures and practices. The project is underpinned by the idea of tectonics as a metaphorical way into understanding the studios’ multiple, stratified, shifting experiences as architectural spaces, diverse working environments and locations for innovation. The study of film studios has been dominated by the centralized Hollywood ‘system’, and local studio histories are typified by discrete, linear and undertheorized approaches. This project proposes a more dynamic materialist methodology, linking empirical data with comparative, transnational developments which occurred during a major period of change within the four key production sites. Using historical research and a range of spatial analysis, 3D and VR tools, the project will explore studio spaces as diverse creative and economic infrastructures which both extended and challenged the range of contemporaneous models. The team will investigate how artistic practices responded to transnational flows in film studio expertise while constituting formative, materially-based ‘spaces of the imagination’. Research will be structured around four major interrelated themes: 1) Architecture and Infrastructure; 2) Creativity, Practices and Innovation; 3) Politics and Economics; 4) Professional and Labour relations. The project will create new understandings of how the collaborative and material environments of studio spaces and technologies shaped film production and cultures.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitución de acogida
BS8 1QU Bristol
Reino Unido