Beschreibung:
Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of 'runaway productions'_the growing practice of producing American films and television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing government politics toward cultural industries.
In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic locations, producers and directors are taking their business to foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was shot in the United States_The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida. Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of 'runaway productions'_the growing practice of producing American films and television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing government politics toward cultural industries.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Catching up to Runaway Productions
Chapter 2
Chapter I: Contemporary Televisual Production: Markets and Studios
Chapter 3 1 Divide and Conquer: Regional Competition in a Concentrated Media Industry
Chapter 4 2 The Policy Environment of the Contemporary Film Studio
Chapter 5
Chapter II: Digital Displacement: Animating Post-Production
Chapter 6 3 OffShore Pot o'Gold: The Political Economy of the Australian Film Industry
Chapter 7 4 Hollywood's Effects, Bollywood FX
Chapter 8
Chapter III: International Cities, Spaces, and Audiences
Chapter 9 5 Projecting Placelessness: Industrial Television and the Authentic Canadian City
Chapter 10 6 The Ice Storm: Ang Lee, Cosmopolitanism, and the Global Audience
Chapter 11 7 World-Class Budgets and Big-Name Casts: The Miniseries and International Coproductions