John Thornton Caldwell

Production Culture

Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnography of film and video production culture in Los Angeles that argues that workers at all levels participate in a form of collective theorizing about tv and film's relationship to its own industry culture.

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

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Produktdetails

• Console-ing Passions
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341116
• ISBN-10: 0822341115
• Artikelnr.: 23370319

Autorenporträt

John Thornton Caldwell

Inhaltsangabe

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