Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries

John Thornton Caldwell’s landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty—first—century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case studies and rich ethnography of colliding social—media and filmmaking practices, Caldwell takes readers into the world of production workshopping and trade mentoring to show media production as an untidy social construct rather than a unified, stable practice. This messy complex system, he argues, ...