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Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting
Author(s): Greg Elmer (Editor, Contributor), Mike Gasher (Editor), Marcus Breen (Contributor), Susan Christopherson (Contributor), Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (Contributor), Ben Goldsmith (Contributor), Nitan Govil (Contributor), Sara Matheson (Contributor), Tom O'Regan (Contributor), Barbara Selznick (Contributor)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 200 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742536947
- ISBN-13: 9780742536944
Book Description
In Hollywood’s search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic locations, producers and directors are taking their business to foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was shot in the United States_The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida. 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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About the Author
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.
