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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.

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Introduction; Petr Szczepanik and Patrick Vonderau PART I: FIELDS AND APPROACHES 1. Borderlands, Contact Zones, and Boundary Games: A Conversation with John T. Caldwell; Patrick Vonderau 2. Analyzing Production from a Socio-Material Perspective; Sara Malou Strandvad 3. The ´Cultural´ of Production and Career; Chris Mathieu 4. Pacts of Embodiment: A Comparative Ethnography of Filmmakers´ Gestures; Emmanuel Grimaud 5. Film Production as a Palimpsest; Sylvie Lindeperg PART II: MODES OF PRODUCTION 6. Stress Aesthetics and Deprivation ´Pay´ Systems; John T. Caldwell 7. The State-Socialist Mode of Production and the Political History of Production Culture; Petr Szczepanik 8. A Flexible Mode of Production: Internationalizing Hollywood Filmmaking in Postwar Europe; Daniel Steinhart 9. A European Take on the Showrunner? Danish Television Drama Production; Eva Novrup Redvall 10. Exporting Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Europe; Alessandro Jedlowski PART III: THE POLITICS OF CREATIVITY 11. Inequalities in Media Work; Rosalind Gill 12. Subjects At Work: Investigating the Creative Labour of British Screenwriters; Bridget Conor 13. Policy or Practice? Deconstructing Creative Industries; Philip Drake

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´A multi-national European contribution to the research of production studies is a welcome addition to the literature in this growing subfield, and Petr Szczepanik and Patrick Vonderau are just the two to bring it to fruition.´ - Jennifer Holt, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

"Behind the Screen explores the complex plays of power and imagination that shape the production of European film and television. Ranging widely, the authors provide revealing case examples of the diverse contexts in which screen media are conceived and produced. Shrewdly observant and conceptually sophisticated, these essays engage brilliantly with enduring debates about creative labor and cultural authority in modern societies." - Michael Curtin, Mellichamp Professor of Global Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

"As cinema studies develops beyond obsessions with meaning and viewing, it is finally returning to the world of work - how are pictures made? This groundbreaking volume is a major contribution to a welcome tendency." - Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA

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