Precarious creativity : global media, local labor / edited by Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curtin, Michael, editor.

Sanson, Kevin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor and globalization.

Mass media and globalization.

Mass media--Employees.

Mass media.

Cultural industries--Employees.

Cultural industries.

Precarious employment--Social aspects.

Precarious employment.

Social aspects.

Employees.

Physical Description:

x, 324 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, it examines working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in such places as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad. The collection also examines labor conditions across a range of job categories that includes, for example, visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from such leading scholars as John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, and Tejaswini Ganti, Precarious Creativity offers timely critiques of media globalization while also intervening in broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Precarious creativity: global media, local labor / Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson

Cybertarian flexibility when prosumers join the cognitariat, all that is scholarship melts into air / Toby Miller

Spec-world, craft-world, brand-world / John T. Caldwell

Film/city: cinema, affect and immaterial labor in urban India / Shanti Kumar

The production of extras in a precarious creative economy / Vicki Mayer

Talent agenting in the age of conglomerates / Violaine Roussel

Transnational crews and post-socialist precarity: globalizing screen media labor in Prague / Petr Szczepanik

The cost of business: gender dynamics of media labor in Afghanistan / Matt Sienkiewicz

"No one thinks Hindi here": language hierarchies in Bollywood / Tejaswini Ganti

Unsettling labor practices in Latin American television industries / Juan Pinon

Learning from Lagos: local labor in alternative global networks / Jade Miller

Creative precarity in the adult film industry / Heather Berg and Constance Penley

Strategies for success? navigating Hollywood's "post-racial" labor practices / Kristen J. Warner

Games production in Australia: adapting to precariousness / John Banks and Stuart Cunningham

Redefining creative labor: East Asian comparisons / Anthony Fung

Unbundling precarious creativity in China: "know how" and "knowing to" / Michael Keane

Revolutionary creative labor / Marwan M. Kraidy

Precarious diversity: representation and demography / Herman Gray

The precarity and politics of media advocacy work / Allison Perlman

Internationalizing labor activism: building solidarity among writers' guilds / Miranda Banks and David Hesmondhalgh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520290853

0520290852

OCLC:

923795917