ISBN:
9781138831681
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (306 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Production Studies, The Sequel! : Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries
DDC:
791.45
Keywords:
Mass media and culture
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Motion pictures Production and direction
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Television Production and direction
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Production Studies, The Sequel! is an exciting exploration of the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities-from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children's television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria, to seemingly-autonomous Twitterbots. Case studies examine international production cultures across five continents and incorporate a range of media, including film, television, music, social media, promotional media, video games, publishing and public broadcasting. Using the lens of cultural studies t
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Note from the Cover Artist: "Changing the Guard: From 'Semper Fi Panavision' to 'Insurgent Crowd-Sourcing' "; I. Tools of the Trade; 1 I Like My Bots Like I Like My People: Weird, Mixed, Always Acting; 2 Performance, Labor, and Stardom in the Era of the Synthespian; 3 How Global Is Hollywood? Division of Labor from a Prop-Making Perspective; II. Being the Brand; 4 Working the Booth: Promotional Models and the Value of Affective Labor; 5 From Broadcast Design to 'On-Brand TV': Repositioning Expertise in the Promotional Screen Industries
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6 Pop Stars Perform 'Gay' for the Male Gaze: The Production of Fauxmosexuality in Female Popular Music Performances and Its Representational ImplicationsIII. Production Pedagogies; 7 Craft, Creativity, Collaboration, and Connections: Educating Talent for Danish Television Drama Series; 8 Charity Appeals as 'Poverty Porn'? Production Ethics in Representing Suffering Children and Typhoon Haiyan Beneficiaries in the Philippines; 9 Group Writing for Post-Socialist Television; IV. Putting the Public Back in Public Service
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10 Public Service as Production Cultures: A Contingent, Conjunctural Compact11 Invisible Workers in an Invisible Medium: An Ethnographic Approach to Italian Public and Private Freelance Radio Producers; 12 Detachment, Pride, Critique: Professional Identity in Independent Factual Television Production in Great Britain and Germany; 13 CBC ArtSpots and the Activation of Creative Citizenship; V. Transnational Circuits; 14 Avenues of Participation and Strategies of Control: Video Film Production and Social Mobility in Ethiopia and Southern Nigeria
Description / Table of Contents:
15 From Experiencing Life to Life Experiences: Location Shooting Practices in Chinese and Taiwanese New Wave Cinemas16 The Crunch Heard 'Round the World: The Global Era of Digital Game Labor; VI. Redefining the Industry; 17 "What Actually Matters": Identity, Individualization, and Aspiration in the Work of Glossy Magazine Production; 18 The Trick of the Trades: Media Industry Studies and the American Comic Book Industry; 19 Co-Producing Content for Pan-Arab Children's TV: State, Business, and the Workplace
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20 Keep Big Government out of Your Television Set: The Rhetoric of Self-Regulation before the Television CodeSelect Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
