Precarious creativity: global media, local labor

by Curtin, Michael Sanson, Kevin

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Full title :Precarious creativity : global media, local labor / edited by Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson.

Summary

"Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, it examines working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in such places as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad. The collection also examines labor conditions across a range of job categories that includes, for example, visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from such leading scholars as John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, and Tejaswini Ganti, Precarious Creativity offers timely critiques of media globalization while also intervening in broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity"--Provided by publisher

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Oakland, California
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 324 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520964808, 0520964802
oclc:ocn939751937
LC Classification:HD9999.C9472
Dewey Decimal:331.76130223

Subjects

Australian Cultural industries -- Employees Film, TV and radio Films, cinema Globalization Industries culturelles -- Personnel Labor and globalization Mass media -- Employees Mass media and globalization Media studies Médias -- Personnel Médias et mondialisation Precarious employment -- Social aspects Social issues and processes SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies Society and culture: general Society and social sciences Society and… Sociology Sociology and anthropology Sociology: work and labour