Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting (Critical Media Studies)

Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting (Critical Media Studies)

by Greg Elmer (Author)

Synopsis

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 government politics toward cultural industries.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 28 Mar 2005

ISBN 10: 0742536955
ISBN 13: 9780742536951

Author Bio
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.