Iluminace 2024, 36(3):127-135 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1797

“Studios Are Fundamentally about Controlling the Environment.”
Space Control and Epistemologically Challenging Failures in the Film Studios’ Research 
An Interview with Brian R. Jacobson

Pavel Skopal ORCID...1, Ewa Ciszewska ORCID...2, Micha³ Pabi¶-Orzeszyna ORCID...2
1 Masaryk University, Czech Republic
2 University of Lodz, Poland

An Interview with Brian R. Jacobson.

Keywords: film studios, environment, architecture

Received: December 19, 2024; Accepted: December 19, 2024; Published: January 28, 2025  Show citation

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Skopal, P., Ciszewska, E., & Pabi¶-Orzeszyna, M. (2024). “Studios Are Fundamentally about Controlling the Environment.”
Space Control and Epistemologically Challenging Failures in the Film Studios’ Research 
An Interview with Brian R. Jacobson. Iluminace, 36(3), 127-135. doi: 10.58193/ilu.1797
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