Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film, practical theories of production systems such as film dramaturgy, and the self-theorizing of European auteurs and professionals.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Tables and Figures (p. ix)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Part I Fields and Approaches
• 1 Borderlands, Contact Zones, and Boundary Games: A Conversation with John T. Caldwell (p. 13)
• 2 Analyzing Production from a Socio-material Perspective (p. 27)
• 3 The "Cultural" of Production and Career (p. 45)
• 4 Pacts of Embodiment: A Comparative Ethnography of Filmmakers' Gestures (p. 61)
• 5 Film Production as a Palimpsest (p. 73)
• Part II Modes of Production
• 6 Stress Aesthetics and Deprivation Payroll Systems (p. 91)
• 7 The State-socialist Mode of Production and the Political History of Production Culture (p. 113)
• 8 A Flexible Mode of Production: Internationalizing Hollywood Filmmaking in Postwar Europe (p. 135)
• 9 A European Take on the Showrunner? Danish Television Drama Production (p. 153)
• 10 Exporting Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Europe (p. 171)
• Part III The Politics of Creativity
• 11 Inequalities in Media Work (p. 189)
• 12 Subjects at Work: Investigating the Creative Labor of British Screenwriters (p. 207)
• 13 Policy or Practice? Deconstructing the Creative Industries (p. 221)
• Notes on Contributors (p. 237)
• Selected Bibliography (p. 241)
• Index (p. 253)