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Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor

Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges workers face. The authors take on crucial issues and provide insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference.

Sociology Social Sciences

Author: Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson
Publisher: LibreTexts
Source: LibreTexts
License: CC BY
Language: EN
Category: Basic Sciences

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Contents· 137 sections

01: Precarious Creativity Global Media Local Labor
1.01: Precarious Creativity Global Media Local Labor
1.02: Notes
02: Cybertarian FlexibilityWhen Prosumers Join the Cognitariat All That Is Scholarship Melts into Air
2.01: Introduction
2.02: Television and the Environment
2.03: Cogenitariat
2.04: Conclusion
2.05: Notes
03: Spec World Craft World Brand World
3.01: Introduction
3.02: Craft World Brand World
3.03: Production Culture as Spec Work
3.04: Self-Defeating Labor Tactics
3.05: Spec Work Prototypes Pretesting Pilots (Brand and Franchise Fodder)
3.06: Notes
04: Film City- Cinema Affect and Immaterial Labor in Urban India
4.01: Introduction
4.02: Bollywoodization Immaterial Labor and Mass Creativity
4.03: The Film City and as the Immaterial Infrastructure of Urban Life
4.04: Conclusion
4.05: Notes
05: The Production of Extras in a Precarious Creative Economy
5.01: Introduction
5.02: The Treme Moral Economy
5.03: A Little Extra Work for a Lot of Extras
5.04: To Be (an) Extra
5.05: Concluding Futures
5.06: Notes
06: Talent Agenting in the Age of Conglomerates
6.01: Introduction
6.02: How Agency Growth Transforms Agenting
6.03: Lessons from the Rise of the Indie Film Agent
6.04: The Lost Art of Agenting
6.05: Notes
07: Transnational Crews and Postsocialist Precarity Globalizing Screen Media Labor in Prague
7.01: Introduction
7.02: Localized Learning in Global Production Networks
7.03: Globalizing a Postsocialist Production World Producers and Production Management as Cultural Interface
7.04: Multiple Globalizations
7.05: Career Patterns and Precarity in Transnational Project Networks
7.06: Conclusion A Two-Tier Departmentalized Work World
7.07: Notes
08: The Cost of Business Gender Dynamics of Media Labor in Afghanistan
8.01: Introduction
8.02: Rightful Suspicions
8.03: Case by Case Women in For-Profit TV
8.04: The Noncommercial Sector
8.05: Conclusion
8.06: Notes
09: No One Thinks in Hindi Here Language Hierarchies in Bollywood
9.01: Introduction
9.02: English as a Lingua Franca in the Hindi Film Industry
9.03: The Precarious Status of Hindi in the Hindi Film Industry
9.04: Hindi Indie
9.05: Conclusion
9.06: Notes
10: Complex Labor Relations in Latin American Television Industries
10.01: Introduction
10.02: A Brief Overview of the Latin American Television Industry
10.03: Independents in the Contemporary Landscape of Television Industries
10.04: Genre and Formats Division of Labor
10.05: The Asymmetrical Relationship Between Indie Houses and Television Networks
10.06: Labor Struggles Accommodations and Strategies of Survival
10.07: Conclusion
10.08: Notes
11: Labor in Lagos Alternative Global Networks
11.01: Introduction
11.02: The Context Nollywood the Place
11.03: Implications of Opaque Distribution
11.04: Precarity Repeat Collaboration and Industry Entry
11.05: Conclusion
11.06: Notes
12: Creative Precarity in the Adult Film Industry
12.01: Introduction
12.02: Contours of the Industry
12.03: Conditions of and Responses to Precarity
12.04: Do-It-Yourself Ethics Class and Boundary Work
12.05: Notes
13: Strategies for Success Navigating Hollywoods Postracial Labor Practices
13.01: Introduction
13.02: Minority Employment Dismal Data and Industrial Pushback
13.03: Casting Directors Precarious Limbo Gatekeepers
13.04: Three Strategies of Navigating Today's Hollywood
13.05: Conclusion
13.06: Notes
14: Games Production in Australia Adapting to Precariousness
14.01: Introduction
14.02: They Still Make Games
14.03: Precariousness as a Function of Policy and Industry Cultures
14.04: Conclusion
14.05: Notes
15: Redefining Creative Labor East Asian Comparisons
15.01: Introduction
15.02: Problematizing Creativity
15.03: Subcontracting and Subcontracted Creativity
15.04: Three Major Production Regions in Asia
15.05: Modes of Creative Labor
15.06: Three Modes of Cultural Labor
15.07: Conclusion Creative Industries With or Without Creativity
15.08: Notes
16: Unbundling Precarious Creativity in China Knowing-How and Knowing-To
16.01: Introduction
16.02: Contextualizing Precarious Creativity
16.03: A Chinese Political Economy Framework
16.04: Knowledge Capital
16.05: Media The Game Changes
16.06: The Cultural Innovation Timeline Reconsidered
16.07: Concluding Remarks The (Precarious) Elephant in the Room
16.08: Notes
17: Revolutionary Creative Labor
17.01: Introduction
17.02: Creativity and Labor in Social Movement and Production Studies A Snapshot
17.03: Industrial and Revolutionary Two Types of Creative Labor
17.04: Subjectivity and Revolutionary Creative Labor
17.05: Notes
18: Precarious Diversity Representation and Demography
18.01: Introduction
18.02: Problem Space 1 Employment Content and Demography
18.03: The Current Conjecture
18.04: Problem Space 2 Difference and Power
18.05: Diversity as Quotidian Production Practices
18.06: Conclusion From Inventory to Attachment
18.07: Notes
19: The Precarity and Politics of Media Advocacy Work
19.01: Introduction
19.02: Media Advocacy as Work
19.03: Media Advocacy as Media Work
19.04: Conclusion The Precarity and Politics of Media Advocacy Work
19.05: Notes
20: Internationalizing Labor Activism Building Solidarity among Writers Guilds
20.01: Introduction
20.02: Problems Facing Organized Labor in the Media Industries
20.03: The Writers Guild of America in the National Context
20.04: Going Global Guilds in an Era of Internationalization
20.05: Conclusion
20.06: Notes