Locating Migrating Media

by Elmer, Greg; Davis, Charles H.; Marchessault, Janine; McCullough, John; Falicov, Tamara L.; Goldsmith, Ben; Kaye, Janice; King, Barry; Moran, Albert; O'Regan, Tom; VanderBurgh, Jennifer; Ward, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780739142417
• ISBN10: 0739142410
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-22
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites of media production. The book's chapters also question the role that film and television industries and local and regional governments play in broader economic develop and tax incentive schemes. While metaphors of transportation, mobility, fluidity and change continue to serve as key concepts and frames for understanding contemporary media industries, products and processes, the essays in this book look to local spaces, neighborhoods, cultural workers and stories to ground the global_that is, to interrogate the effect of media globalization before, during and after film and television shooting and onsite production. By locating migrating media, these chapters seek to determine the political, economic and cultural conditions that produce contemporary forms of televisual and cinematic storytelling, and how these processes affect the inhabitants, the _look_ and the very geopolitical future of local communities, neighborhoods, cities and regions. The focus on relocated screen production highlights the act of film- and television-making, both aesthetically and economically. To locate migrating media is therefore to determine the political and cultural economies of globalized sets and stages, be they in new studios or on city streets or, perhaps most importantly, in our imaginations.

Author Biography

Charles H. Davis, Tamara L. Falicov, Ben Goldsmith, Janice Kaye, Barry King, Janine Marchessault, John McCullough, Albert Moran, Tom O'Regan, Jennifer VanderBurgh, Susan Ward Dr. Greg Elmer is an associate professor of radio and television arts at Ryerson University, and the director of Infoscape New Media Lab. He also coauthored Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting. Charles H. Davis is a professor at Ryerson University's School of Radio and Television Arts. Janine Marchessault is Canada research chair in art, digital media, and globalization at York University. John McCullough teaches in the Department of Film at York University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Introduction: Locating Migrating Media	p. vii
Production, Distribution and Labor
Migrating from South to North: The Role of Film Festivals in Funding and Shaping Global South Film and Video	p. 3
When TV Formats Migrate: Languages of Business and Culture	p. 23
Saskatchewan Television Labor and Jurisdictional Advantage	p. 37
Infrastructure, Policy and Economic Development
International Production Outsourcing and the Development of Indigenous Film and Television Capabilities: The Case of Canada	p. 57
Fashioning the Boutique Location: Remaking the Gold Coast as an International Production Location	p. 79
If you Build it à Film Studios and the Transformative Effects of Migrating Media Production	p. 103
Lived Local Screens
Poetics of Place in Montreal Films	p. 131
Toronto's Aesthetic Turf War and the Look of Rival Film Policies in Monkey Warfare	p. 145
The Lord of the Rings as a Cultural Projection	p. 159
Index	p. 183
About the Contributors	p. 193
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