ISBN:
9780415997959
,
9780415997966
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 255 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Production Studies : Cultural Studies of Media Industries
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Television Production and direction
;
Mass media and culture
;
Motion pictures Production and direction
Abstract:
"Behind-the-scenes" stories of ranting directors, stingy producers, temperamental actors, and the like have fascinated us since the beginnings of film and television. Today, magazines, websites, television programs, and DVDs are devoted to telling tales of trade lore-from on-set antics to labor disputes. The production of media has become as storied and mythologized as the content of the films and TV shows themselves. Production Studies is the first volume to bring together a star-studded cast of interdisciplinary media scholars to examine the unique cultural practices of media produ
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Production Studies: Roots and Routes; Part I Histories of Media Production Studies; Chapter 1 Bringing the Social Back In: Studies of Production Cultures and Social Theory; Chapter 2 Industry-Level Studies and the Contributions of Gitlin's Inside Prime Time; Chapter 3 Leo C. Rosten's Hollywood: Power, Status, and the Primacy of Economic and Social Networks in Cultural Production; Chapter 4 Privilege and Distinction in Production Worlds: Copyright, Collective Bargaining, and Working Conditions in Media Making
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Producers: Selves and OthersChapter 5 Self-Serve Celebrity: The Production of Ordinariness and the Ordinariness of Production in Reality Television; Chapter 6 Gender Below-the-Line: Defining Feminist Production Studies; Chapter 7 It's Not TV, It's Brand Management TV: The Collective Author(s) of the Lost Franchise; Chapter 8 Showrunning the Doctor Who Franchise: A Response to Denise Mann; Part III Production Spaces: Centers and Peripheries; Chapter 9 Liminal Places and Spaces: Public/Private Considerations
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10 "Not in Kansas Anymore": Transnational Collaboration in Television Science Fiction ProductionChapter 11 Crossing the Border: Studying Canadian Television Production; Chapter 12 Borders of Production Research: A Response to Elana Levine; Part IV Production as Lived Experience; Chapter 13 Studying Sideways: Ethnographic Access in Hollywood; Chapter 14 Audience Knowledge and the Everyday Lives of Cultural Producers in Hollywood; Chapter 15 Lights, Camera, but Where's the Action?: Actor-Network Theory and the Production of Robert Connolly's Three Dollars
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 16 "Both Sides of the Fence": Blurred Distinctions in Scholarship and Production (a Portfolio of Interviews)Select Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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