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Production Studies

Production Studies
Cultural Studies of Media Industries
Vicki Mayer
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Artikel-Nr:
9780415997966
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2009
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Vicki Mayer
Gewicht:
403 g
Format:
228x154x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Vicki Mayer is Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University. She is author of Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth: Mexican Americans and Mass Media.Miranda J. Banks is Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College.John Thornton Caldwell is Professor of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA. He has authored and edited several books, including Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television, Electronic Media and Technoculture, New Media: Digitextual Theories and Practices, and Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television.
Production Studies is a landmark collection that closely examines the texts, institutions, and practices of media industries in order to allow media studies students and scholars to think more precisely and holistically about media production as a cultural activity. The book is comprised of all new essays exploring the cultures, social organization, work practices, and belief systems of media practitioners. Each section results from a combination of situated fieldwork, empirical or from-the-ground-up studies, and critical analysis. Individual chapters draw upon a diverse array of earlier production studies across a range of ethnographic, sociological, critical, material, and political-economic methodologies as each author presents their own contemporary research.

The contributors include distinguished and new scholars from a range of academic disciplines - Film and Media Studies, Communication, Sociology, and Anthropology. The authors and editors are especially interested in how the cultural activities of production workers fit within and animate the new realities of a post-Fordist and neoliberal economy, flexible and outsourced labor practices, multimedia convergence, and multinational, corporate conglomeration.
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 production. The all-new essays collected here combine ethnographic, sociological, critical, material, and political-economic methods to explore a wide range of topics, from contemporary industrial trends such as new media and niche markets to gender and workplace hierarchies. Together, the contributors seek to understand how the entire span of "media producers"-ranging from high-profile producers and directors to anonymous stagehands and costume designers-work through professional organizations and informal networks to form communities of shared practices, languages, and cultural understandings of the world.

Introduction: Production Studies: Roots and Routes, Vicki Mayer, Miranda J. Banks, and John Thornton Caldwell

Part One: Histories of Media Production Studies

1. Bringing the Social Back In: Studies of Production Cultures and Social Theory, Vicki Mayer

2. Industry-Level Studies and the Contributions of Gitlin's Inside Prime Time, AmandaD. Lotz

3. Leo C. Rosten's Hollywood: Power, Status, and the Primacy of Economic and Social Networks in Cultural Production, John L. Sullivan

4. Privilege and Distinction in Production Worlds: Copyright, Collective Bargaining, and Working Conditions in Media Making, Matt Stahl

Part Two: Producers: Selves and Others

5. Self-Serve Celebrity: The Production of Ordinariess and the Ordinariness of Production in Reality Television, Laura Grindstaff

6. Feminism Below-the-Line: Defining Feminist Production Studies, Miranda J. Banks

7. It's Not TV, It's Brand Management TV: The Collective Author(s) of the Lost Franchise, Denise Mann

8. Showrunning the Doctor Who Franchise: A Response to Denise Mann, Christine Cornea

Part Three: Production Spaces: Centers and Peripheries

9. Liminal Places and Spaces: Public/Private Considerations, Candace Moore

10. "Not in Kansas Anymore": Transnational Collaboration in Television Science Fiction Production, Jane Landman

11. Crossing the Border: Studying Canadian Television Production, Elana Levine

12. Borders of Production Research: A Response to Elana Levine, Serra Tinic

Part Four: Production as Lived Experience

13. Studying Sideways: Ethnographic Access in Hollywood, Sherry Ortner

14. Audience Knowledge and the Everyday Lives of Cultural Producers in Hollywood, Stephen Zafirau

15. Lights, Camera, but Where's the Action? Actor-Network Theory and the Production of Robert Connolly's Three Dollars,  Oli Mould

16. Both Sides of the Fence: Blurred Distinctions in Scholarhip and Production (A Portfoloio of Interviews), John Caldwell. The Craft Association, Paul Malcolm. Hollywood Assistanting, Erin Hill. The Writer's Room, Felicia D. Henderson.

Select Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

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