Locating Migrating Media

by Greg Elmer (Editor), Charles H. Davis (Editor), Janine Marchessault (Editor), John McCullough (Editor), Tamara L. Falicov (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739142417
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	06/22/2010
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr. Greg Elmer is associate professor of radio and television arts at Ryerson University, and the director of Infoscape new Media Lab. He also co-authored Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Production and Foreign Location Shooting.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction: Locating Migrating Media Greg Elmer Charles Davis Janine Marchessault John McCullough vii

Part I Production, Distribution and Labor

1 Migrating from South to North: The Role of Film Festivals in Funding and Shaping Global South Film and Video Tamara L. Falicov 3

2 When TV Formats Migrate: Languages of Business and Culture Albert Moran 23

3 Saskatchewan Television Labor and Jurisdictional Advantage John McCullough 37

Part II Infrastructure, Policy and Economic Development

4 International Production Outsourcing and the Development of Indigenous Film and Television Capabilities: The Case of Canada Charles H. Davis Janice Kaye 57

5 Fashioning the Boutique Location: Remaking the Gold Coast as an International Production Location Susan Ward Tom O'Regan 79

6 If you Build it . . . Film Studios and the Transformative Effects of Migrating Media Production Ben Goldsmith 103

Part III Lived Local Screens

7 Poetics of Place in Montreal Films Janine Marchessault 131

8 Toronto's Aesthetic Turf War and the Look of Rival Film Policies in Monkey Warfare Jennifer VanderBurgh 145

9 The Lord of the Rings as a Cultural Projection Barry King 159

Index 183

About the Contributors 193

Editorial Reviews

This volume is unique in its examination of productions' impact on the locales themselves, and the locations' impact on the televisual aspects of the productions....This book fills a unique niche. Summing Up: Recommended.

Choice Reviews

The media are on the move, in every conceivable way. As "new" media arrive at our doorsteps and bedsides, this compelling volume asks us to think about mobile media in a different way, to consider the who, what, when, and where of how the media go about their business. In an era of footloose cultural production, Locating Migrating Media is an invaluable guide.

Toby Miller

This volume is unique in its examination of productions' impact on the locales themselves, and the locations' impact on the televisual aspects of the productions....This book fills a unique niche. Summing Up: Recommended.

Choice

This volume is unique in its examination of productions' impact on the locales themselves, and the locations' impact on the televisual aspects of the productions....This book fills a unique niche. Summing Up: Recommended.

CHOICE

The media are on the move, in every conceivable way. As "new" media arrive at our doorsteps and bedsides, this compelling volume asks us to think about mobile media in a different way, to consider the who, what, when, and where of how the media go about their business. In an era of footloose cultural production, Locating Migrating Media is an invaluable guide.--Toby Miller, New York University

This volume is unique in its examination of productions' impact on the locales themselves, and the locations' impact on the televisual aspects of the productions....This book fills a unique niche. Summing Up: Recommended.--CHOICE

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