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Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television

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Description for Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television Paperback. An investigation of the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles based film and video production workers. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 464 pages, 85 photographs, 5 tables. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 654.
In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles–based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many “below-the-line” laborers, including gaffers, editors, and camera operators. Caldwell analyzes the narratives and rituals through which workers make sense of their labor and critique the film and TV industry as well as the culture writ large. As a self-reflexive industry, Hollywood constantly exposes itself and its production processes to the public; workers’ ideas about the industry are embedded in their daily practices and the media ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
Console-ing Passions
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822341116
SKU
V9780822341116
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99-1

About John Thornton Caldwell
John Thornton Caldwell is Professor and Chair of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television; editor of Electronic Media and Technoculture; and coeditor of New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality. He is the producer and director of the award-winning documentaries Rancho California ... Read more

Reviews for Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
“Production Culture offers a unified and thought-provoking interpretation of Hollywood’s cultural residues while also interfacing with the discourses reproduced by its workers and the processes of production in which these workers engage. What is more, this work calls attention to the fact that one need not be an anthropologist, or even an academic, to ‘do ethnography.’” - Sasha David, American ... Read more

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