Contracting Out Hollywood Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting

by Elmer, Greg; Gasher, Mike; Breen, Marcus; Christopherson, Susan; Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk; Elmer, Greg; Goldsmith, Ben; Govil, Nitan; Matheson, Sara; O'Regan, Tom; Selznick, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780742536944
• ISBN10: 0742536947
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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. 978074253695

Table of Contents

Introduction: Catching Up to Runaway Productions	1	(20)
Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher
Part I: Contemporary Televisual Production: Markets and Studios
1 Divide and Conquer: Regional Competition in a Concentrated Media Industry	21	(20)
Susan Christopherson
2 The Policy Environment of the Contemporary Film Studio	41	(28)
Ben Goldsmith and Tom O'Regan
Part II: Digital Displacement: Animating Post-Production
3 Offshore Pot o'Gold: The Political Economy of the Australian Film Industry	69	(23)
Marcus Breen
4 Hollywood's Effects, Bollywood FX	92	(25)
Nitin Govil
Part III: International Cities, Spaces, and Audiences
5 Projecting Placelessness: Industrial Television and the "Authentic" Canadian City	117	(23)
Sarah Matheson
6 The Ice Storm: Ang Lee, Cosmopolitanism, and the Global Audience	140	(17)
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
7 World-Class Budgets and Big-Name Casts: The Miniseries and International Coproductions	157	(20)
Barbara Selznick
Index	177	(10)
About the Contributors	187