Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production

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Contemporary film and television production is extraordinarily mobile. Filming large—scale studio productions in Atlanta, Budapest, London, Prague, or Australia's Gold Coast makes Hollywood jobs available to people and places far removed from Southern California—but it also requires individuals to uproot their lives as they ...