Production Studies, The Sequel Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries [Paperback]

Production Studies, The Sequel! is an exciting exploration of the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communitiesfrom prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of childrens television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria, to seemingly-autonomous Twitterbots. Case studies examine international production cultures across five continents and incorporate a range of media, including film, television, music, social media, promotional media, video games, publishing and public broadcasting.

Using the lens of cultural studies to examine media production, Production Studies, The Sequel!takes into account transnational production flows and places production studies in conversation with other major areas of media scholarship including audience studies, media industries, and media history. A follow-up to the successful Production Studies, this collection highlights new and important research in the field, and promises to generate continued discussion about the past, present, and future of production studies.

 

I. Tools of the Trade

1. Chris Peterson, I Like My Bots Like I Like My People: Weird, Mixed, Always Acting

2. Mary Desjardins, Performance, Labor, and Stardom in the Era of the Synthespian

3. Patrick Vonderau, How Global is Hollywood? Division of Labor from a Prop-Making Perspective

II. Being the Brand

4. Nina Huntemann, Working the Booth: Promotional Models and the Value of Affective Labor

5. Catherine Johnson and Paul Grainge, From Broadcast Design to On-Brand TV: Repositioning Expertise in the Promotional Screen Industries

6. Kristin J. Lieb, Pop Stars Perform Gay for The Male Gaze: The Production of Fauxmosexuality in Female Popular Music Performances and Its Representational Implications