Mobile Hollywood : : Labor and the Geography of Production / / Kevin Sanson.

• VerfasserIn: Sanson, Kevin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Contemporary film and television production is extraordinarily mobile. Filming large-scale studio productions in Atlanta, Budapest, London, Prague, or Australia's Gold Coast makes Hollywood jobs available to people and places far removed from Southern California-but it also requires individuals to uproot their lives as they travel around the world in pursuit of work. Drawing on interviews with a global contingent of film and television workers, Kevin Sanson weaves an analysis of the sheer scale and complexity of mobile production into a compelling account of the impact that mobility has had on job functions, working conditions, and personal lives. Mobile Hollywood captures how an expanded geography of production not only intensifies the often invisible pressures that production workers now face but also stretches the parameters of screen-media labor far beyond craftwork and creativity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Leaving Los Angeles -- 2. Making Hollywood Mobile: Elastic Production Geographies and Irrational Labor -- 3. Here to Help: Service Producers and the Labor of Film Friendliness -- 4. Crew Adjacent: Location Experts, Spatial Creativity, and Logistical Quagmires -- 5. Driving Hollywood Outside Hollywood: Transportation Teamsters, Industrial Relations, and Distant Locations -- 6. Risk Management for Mobile Hollywood -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index