Behind the Screen

1. Introduction
Petr Szczepanik, Patrick Vonderau

Part I. Fields and Approaches

2. Borderlands, Contact Zones, and Boundary Games: A Conversation with John T. Caldwell
Patrick Vonderau

3. Analyzing Production from a Socio-material Perspective
Sara Malou Strandvad

4. The “Cultural” of Production and Career
Chris Mathieu

5. Pacts of Embodiment: A Comparative Ethnography of Filmmakers’ Gestures
Emmanuel Grimaud

6. Film Production as a Palimpsest
Sylvie Lindeperg

Part II. Modes of Production

7. Stress Aesthetics and Deprivation Payroll Systems
John T. Caldwell

8. The State-socialist Mode of Production and the Political History of Production Culture
Petr Szczepanik

9. A Flexible Mode of Production: Internationalizing Hollywood Filmmaking in Postwar Europe
Daniel Steinhart

10. A European Take on the Showrunner? Danish Television Drama Production
Eva Novrup Redvall

11. Exporting Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Europe
Alessandro Jedlowski

Part III. The Politics of Creativity

12. Inequalities in Media Work
Rosalind Gill

13. Subjects at Work: Investigating the Creative Labor of British Screenwriters
Bridget Conor

14. Policy or Practice? Deconstructing the Creative Industries
Philip Drake

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Directing, European History, Modern History, Film History, European Cinema, Cultural History