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Greg Elmer - Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting - 9780742536951 - V9780742536951
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Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting

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Description for Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting Paperback. Editor(s): Elmer, Greg; Gasher, Mike. Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic locations, producers and directors are taking their business to foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was shot in the United States—The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida. Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of "runaway productions"—the growing practice of producing American films and television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
293 g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742536951
SKU
V9780742536951
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Ref
99-15

About Greg Elmer
Greg Elmer is the Bell Globemedia Research Chair of the Rogers Communications Centre/School of Radio-TV Arts at Ryerson University, Toronto. Mike Gasher is associate professor in the Department of Journalism at Concordia University, Montreal.

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