Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Creativity, Systems, Space, Patronage
Aug 2012 · A&C Black
Ebook
224
Pages
About this ebook
Like many other cultural commodities, films and TV shows tend to work in such a way as to obscure the conditions under which they are produced, a process that has been reinforced by dominant trends in the practice of Film and Television Studies.
This collection places the workplace experiences of industry workers at centre stage. It looks at film and television production in a variety of social, economic, political, and cultural contexts. The book provides detailed analyses of specific systems of production and their role in shaping the experience of work, whilst also engaging with the key theoretical and methodological questions involved in film and television production. Drawing together the work of historians, film scholars, and anthropologists, it looks at film and television production not only in Hollywood and Western Europe but also in less familiar settings such as the Soviet Union, India, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Chronologically wide-ranging, interdisciplinary and international in scope, it is a unique introduction, critical for all students of the film industries and film production.
This collection places the workplace experiences of industry workers at centre stage. It looks at film and television production in a variety of social, economic, political, and cultural contexts. The book provides detailed analyses of specific systems of production and their role in shaping the experience of work, whilst also engaging with the key theoretical and methodological questions involved in film and television production. Drawing together the work of historians, film scholars, and anthropologists, it looks at film and television production not only in Hollywood and Western Europe but also in less familiar settings such as the Soviet Union, India, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Chronologically wide-ranging, interdisciplinary and international in scope, it is a unique introduction, critical for all students of the film industries and film production.
About the author
Andrew Dawson is Film Studies programme leader at the University of Greenwich. He teaches courses on Film and American Society and Working for Hollywood.
Sean Holmes is Subject Leader for Screen Media and a lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Brunel University. He has taught in the U.K. and the U.S. and his current research looks at the politics of cultural production.
Sean Holmes is Subject Leader for Screen Media and a lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Brunel University. He has taught in the U.K. and the U.S. and his current research looks at the politics of cultural production.
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