One-Stop Sweatshop: The Indian Visual Effects Industry's Race to the Bottom

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Much of Hollywood's computer-generated imagery is produced far from the studios that claim authorship over it. Since the 1990s, Hollywood studios have cut costs by outsourcing the time- and labor-intensive work of creating CGI to countries with low wages and skilled workforces. This book offers both a history and an ethnograp...