Production Culture

by Caldwell, John Thornton

• ISBN13: 9780822340928
• ISBN10: 0822340925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

""Production Culture" is a stunningly original contribution to film and television studies. John Thornton Caldwell's argument--that we can learn a lot about the production of culture by looking at the cultures of production--is borne out in an analysis that ranges across texts, populations, and institutional and physical spaces. This is a superb book."--Anna McCarthy, author of "Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space"

Author Biography

John Thornton Caldwell is a professor and chair of cinema and media studies at the University of California, Los Angles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Industry Reflexivity and Common Sense

Trade Stories and Career Capital

Trade Rituals and Turf Marking

Trade Images and Imagined Communities (Below the Line)

Trade Machines and Manufactured Identities (Below the Line)

Industrial Auteur Theory (Above the Line/Creative)

Industrial Identity Theory (Above the Line/Business)

Industrial Reflexivity as Viral Marketing

Conclusion: Shoot-Outs, Bake-Offs, and Speed Dating (Manic Disclosure/Non-Disclosure

Method: Artifacts and Cultural Practices in Production Studies

A Taxonomy of DVD Bonus Track Strategies and Functions

Practitioner Avowal/Disavowal (Industrial Doublespeak)

Corporate Reflexivity vs. Worker Reflexivity (The Two Warring Flipsides of Industrial Self-Disclosure)

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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