Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production
Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production
by Kevin Sanson
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0520399005 | 242 Pages | True ePUB | 4.48 MB
by Kevin Sanson
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0520399005 | 242 Pages | True ePUB | 4.48 MB
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 travel around the world in pursuit of work. Drawing on interviews with a global contingent of film and television workers, Kevin Sanson weaves an analysis of the sheer scale and complexity of mobile production into a compelling account of the impact that mobility has had on job functions, working conditions, and personal lives. Mobile Hollywood captures how an expanded geography of production not only intensifies the often invisible pressures that production workers now face but also stretches the parameters of screen-media labor far beyond craftwork and creativity.