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Mike Gasher - Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia - 9780774809672 - V9780774809672
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Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia

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Description for Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia Hardback. This timely book recounts the story of British Columbia's rapid rise from relative obscurity in the film world to its current status as "Hollywood North." Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JJP; APF; HBT; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 408.

British Columbia is celebrated as Canada’s principal centre of audiovisual production. Its billion-dollar industry trails behind only California and New York, the most well-established film production sites on the continent. Prior to the mid-1970s, however, British Columbia had little in the way of film production that could properly be called an industry.

This timely book recounts the story of British Columbia’s rapid rise from relative obscurity in the film world to its current status as “Hollywood North.” Mike Gasher positions the industry as a model for commercial film production in the twenty-first century – one strongly shaped by a perception of ... Read more

Hollywood North is an important book that brings into focus the tension between globalization and localization in the film industry. It will have great appeal to those with an interest in debates on Canadian national cinema, the notion of cinema as industry, and the highly nuanced relationship between cinema and place.

Selected as a BC Book for Everybody.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774809672
SKU
V9780774809672
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Ref
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About Mike Gasher
Mike Gasher is a member of the Department of Journalism, Concordia University, and co-author of Mass Communications in Canada. He is a former reporter and editor at The Province, The Columbian, and other papers.

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