Haunted : an ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong media industries / Sylvia J. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Sylvia J., author.

Series:

Issues of globalization

Issues of globalization: case studies in contemporary anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--Employees--Social conditions.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--China--Hong Kong--Employees--Social conditions.

Motion picture industry--Cross-cultural studies.

National characteristics, American.

National characteristics, Chinese.

Work environment--Cross-cultural studies.

Work environment.

Employees.

Social conditions.

China--Hong Kong.

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"An ethnography of risk, death, and culture in the Hollywood and Hong Kong media industries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

<strong>Introduction</strong>

"The End"

The Risks of Filming Death

Themes of the Book

Framing: The Multisited and Multisighted

Access

Structure of the Book

<strong>PART 1: The Assemblages of Spectacle</strong>

<strong>Chapter 1: Contrasts, Commonalities, and Connections: Hollywood and Hong Kong</strong>

Ideological Contrasts

Industrial Overviews: Commonalities and Contrasts

Media Assemblages: Joint Productions and Collaborations

<strong>Chapter 2: The Production of Spectacle / The Spectacle of Production </strong>

The Set

"Who's the Chief?": Setwork and Authority

Spectacle and the "Cinema of Attractions"

The Reel Audience: Mediating in the Immediate

The Spectacle of Attractions: Explosions, Wizardry, and Tricks

Tensions Between Extra and Actors

Sisyphean Efforts of the Subcontractor

<strong>PART 2: Local Sets, Global Forces </strong>

<strong>Chapter 3: Gambling, Striking, and Assemblage: Hollywood on (Its) Location </strong>

Dollar Day

Standard Instability

Transnational Flows, Gender, and Race

"Strike!"

Hong Kong in Hollywood: Media Assemblage

<strong>Chapter 4: The Death Narratives of Revitalization: Colonial Governance, China, and the Reconfiguration of the Hong Kong Film Industry</strong>

The Death Narratives

"King Kong in Hong Kong": The Specter of Return

Industrial Decline

Structural Causes of Decline

Consequences of Decline

Conclusion

<strong>PART 3: PERFORMANCE AND POSSESSION</strong>

<strong>Chapter 5: Of Ghosts and Gangsters: Capitalist Cultural Production and the Hong Kong Film Industry </strong>

The Underworlds Emerge

Performance, Payment, Possession

The Spectral in the Spectacle: Constraints and Collaborations

Gangsterism: Constraints and Collaborations

Reciprocity and (Self) Censorship of Ghosts and Gangsters

The Violence in Production: Possessive Power and Payments

<strong>Chapter 6: Affective Labor: An Intersection of Performance and Possession </strong>

Introduction

Affective Labor

Laboring Between Worlds

Performance and Spirit Possession

<strong>Chapter 7: Camera/Chimera: Suicide, Setwork, and the Ethics of Soul Capture </strong>

A Spirited Camera: Protector or Provocateur?

"Camera Ready": Transitions and Transformations

<strong>Epilogue </strong>

Hong Kong

Hollywood

Notes

References Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-219) and index.

ISBN:

9780190464462

0190464461

OCLC:

967323490