Mobile Hollywood : Labor and the Geography of Production / Kevin Sanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanson, Kevin, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Employees--Social conditions.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Production and direction--California--Los Angeles.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Contemporary film and television production is extraordinarily mobile. Filming large-scale studio productions in Atlanta, Budapest, London, Prague, or Australia's Gold Coast makes Hollywood jobs available to people and places far removed from Southern California-but it also requires individuals to uproot their lives as they travel around the world in pursuit of work. Drawing on interviews with a global contingent of film and television workers, Kevin Sanson weaves an analysis of the sheer scale and complexity of mobile production into a compelling account of the impact that mobility has had on job functions, working conditions, and personal lives. Mobile Hollywood captures how an expanded geography of production not only intensifies the often invisible pressures that production workers now face but also stretches the parameters of screen-media labor far beyond craftwork and creativity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Leaving Los Angeles

2. Making Hollywood Mobile: Elastic Production Geographies and Irrational Labor

3. Here to Help: Service Producers and the Labor of Film Friendliness

4. Crew Adjacent: Location Experts, Spatial Creativity, and Logistical Quagmires

5. Driving Hollywood Outside Hollywood: Transportation Teamsters, Industrial Relations, and Distant Locations

6. Risk Management for Mobile Hollywood

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9780520399013

0520399013

OCLC:

1393306056