Contracting Out Hollywood - Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher - Contributions by Marcus Breen; Susan Christopherson; Stephanie Hemelryk Donald; Greg Elmer; Ben Goldsmith; Nitan Govil; Sara Matheson; Tom O'Regan and Barbara Selznick Klappentext Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of "runaway productions"-the growing practice of producing American films and television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing government politics toward cultural industries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Catching up to Runaway Productions Part 2 Part I: Contemporary Televisual Production: Markets and Studios Chapter 3 1 Divide and Conquer: Regional Competition in a Concentrated Media Industry Chapter 4 2 The Policy Environment of the Contemporary Film Studio Part 5 Part II: Digital Displacement: Animating Post-Production Chapter 6 3 OffShore Pot o'Gold: The Political Economy of the Australian Film Industry Chapter 7 4 Hollywood's Effects, Bollywood FX Part 8 Part III: International Cities, Spaces, and Audiences Chapter 9 5 Projecting Placelessness: Industrial Television and the "Authentic" Canadian City Chapter 10 6 The Ice Storm: Ang Lee, Cosmopolitanism, and the Global Audience Chapter 11 7 World-Class Budgets and Big-Name Casts: The Miniseries and International Coproductions

Product details

• Authors: Greg Elmer, Greg Gasher Elmer
• Assisted by: Greg Elmer (Editor), Elmer Greg (Editor), Mike Gasher (Editor), Gasher Mike (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2005
• EAN: 9780742536951
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3695-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture; Critical Media Studies (Paperb; Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment, Politics & government, Politics and government, Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry