Working in the global film and television industries : creativity, systems, space, patronage /: creativity, systems, space, patronage. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrew Dawson and Sean P. Holmes.
• Other Names: Dawson, Andrew; Holmes, Sean P
• Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 New perspectives on working in the global film and television industries; Introduction; Scope of the study; Theorizing systems of production; Methodologies; Systems of production; The role of the state; Patronage and clientelism; Gender; Manoeuvrable spaces; Labour relations and unionization; Creative agency; Final word; Notes; Bibliography; Section I: Systems of production; 2 Labouring in Hollywood's motion picture industry and the legacy of 'flexible specialization'; Flexible specialization; Politics of production. Fordism: classical Hollywood distortedTheoretical inertia; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Soviet film-making under the 'producership' of the party state (1955-85); Introduction; Organization of the film industry in the USSR; Goskino; Studios; Creative units; Directors; Two examples of creative units in the Soviet Union; The Experimental Creative Studio (ECS); Andrei Tarkovsky: the film-maker as 'auteur'; Conclusions; Bibliography; 4 Making films in Scandinavia: Work and production infrastructure in the contemporary regional sector; Wallander. Proceeds from local and regional film productionThe background and the set-up; Conditions for the development of film production in a small Swedish town; Conceptual maps; Some outcomes, some work; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Section II: Manoeuvrable spaces; 5 No room for manoeuvre: Star images and the regulation of actors' labour in silent-era Hollywood; Notes; Bibliography; 6 Working as a freelancer in UK television; Introduction; Background; The new labour market in television production; Finding work -- the evidence; The contractual discourse; Differentiated work histories. Contracts and their discontentsConclusions; Notes; Bibliography; 7 Behind the scenes: The working conditions of technical workers in the Nigerian film industry; The Nigerian video film industry; The working conditions of the Nigerian film workers; The role of the guilds in promoting the cause of workers; Training for the below-the-line workers; Conclusions; Bibliography; Section III: Patronage and clientelism; 8 Fathers, patrons and clients in Kinshasa's media world: Social and economic dynamics in the production of television drama; Kinshasa's media world; The troupe. Artistic and spiritual kinshipDistributing the money; Ties with sponsors and fans: name-dropping; The politics of mabanga; Beti, talking about her 'patronne'; Ance, talking about his 'patron'; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Les chefs-opératrices: Women behind the camera in France; The structure of the profession; From assistant to chef-ops: working with established DPs; The importance of the 'auteur' sector; The nature of the auteurist association; A female gaze?; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Section IV: Creative agency.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures; Fine Arts; ART -- Film & Video; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781780930190; 1780930194; 1780930216; 9781780930213; 9781780930220; 1780930224
• Related ISBNs: 9781780930206; 1780930208; 9781780930237; 1780930232
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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