Kevin Sanson, mobile Hollywood: labor and the geography of production
Kevin Sanson, mobile Hollywood: labor and the geography of production
Mobile Hollywood is framed within critical media studies to provide a grounded, theorized and thoroughly researched account of how Hollywood’s global scale of blockbuster film and television production is an inherently heterogenous spatial enterprise by focusing on ‘the ways that screen media workers in different parts of the world engage with and are disrupted by the expanded geographic scale of Hollywood production’ (p. 3). Kevin Sanson’s new book proposes two particularly engaging approaches: theoretically, respatialization is conceived not as an inevitable outcome of Hollywood’s consolidation and concentration of power, but as a more fraught and contingent mode of production; methodically, Mobile Hollywood directs attention to the usually absent experiences of the media workers who are caught up in these shifting spatial dynamics.
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Fernandez-Meneses, Jara
7087893d-ad52-4d34-a2da-ce81ad49cdef
1 December 2024
Fernandez-Meneses, Jara
7087893d-ad52-4d34-a2da-ce81ad49cdef
Fernandez-Meneses, Jara
(2024)
Kevin Sanson, mobile Hollywood: labor and the geography of production.
Screen, 65 (4), .
(doi:10.1093/screen/hjae039).
Abstract
Mobile Hollywood is framed within critical media studies to provide a grounded, theorized and thoroughly researched account of how Hollywood’s global scale of blockbuster film and television production is an inherently heterogenous spatial enterprise by focusing on ‘the ways that screen media workers in different parts of the world engage with and are disrupted by the expanded geographic scale of Hollywood production’ (p. 3). Kevin Sanson’s new book proposes two particularly engaging approaches: theoretically, respatialization is conceived not as an inevitable outcome of Hollywood’s consolidation and concentration of power, but as a more fraught and contingent mode of production; methodically, Mobile Hollywood directs attention to the usually absent experiences of the media workers who are caught up in these shifting spatial dynamics.
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