Caldwell / Spigel Production Culture

Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8896-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 462 Seiten

Reihe: Console-ing Passions

An investigation of the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angelesbased film and video production workers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caldwell, John Thornton

Spigel, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Industry Reflexivity and Common Sense 1

Chapter 1: Trade Stories and Career Capital 37

Chapter 2: Trade Rituals and Turf Marking 69

Chapter 3: Trade Images and Imagined Communities (Below the Line) 110

Chapter 4: Trade Machines and Manufactured Identities (Below the Line) 150

Chapter 5: Industrial Auteur Theory (Above the Line/Creative) 197

Chapter 6: Industrial Identity Theory (Above the Line/Business) 232

Chapter 7: Industrial Reflexivity as Viral Marketing 274

Conclusion: Shoot-Outs, Bake-Offs, and Speed Dating (Manic Disclosure/Non-Disclosure 316

Appendix 1: Method: Artifacts and Cultural Practices in Production Studies 345

Appendix 2: A Taxonomy of DVD Bonus Track Strategies and Functions 362

Appendix 3: Practitioner Avowal/Disavowal (Industrial Doublespeak) 368

Appendix 4: Corporate Reflexivity vs. Worker Reflexivity (The Two Warring Flipsides of Industrial Self-Disclosure) 370

Notes 373

Works Cited 433

Index 445

Über Autor(innen)

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 (por favor) and Freak Street to Goa: Immigrants on the Rajpath.