Precarious Creativity Global Media, Local Labor

Precarious Creativityexamines 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 confronting actors...

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Main Authors: Curtin, Michael, Sanson, Kevin
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, Calif University of California Press 2016
Subjects:
Atypische Beschäftigung
Cultural and media studies
Cultural industries
Cultural industries > Employees
Employees
Employment and labour law: general
Films, cinema
Freie Mitarbeiter
Globalisierung
Globalization
Interdisciplinary studies
Kommunikationsmedien
labor
Labor & Employment
Labor and globalization
Law
Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law
Mass media
Mass media > Employees
Mass media and globalization
Media Studies
Performing arts
Political Science
Precarious employment
Precarious employment > Social aspects
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Sociology
Sociology and anthropology
Sociology: work and labour
The Arts
Welt
ISBN:0520290852, 9780520290853, 0520964802, 9780520964808
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Summary:Precarious Creativityexamines 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 confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, it examines working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in such places as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad. The collection also examines labor conditions across a range of job categories that includes, for example, visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from such leading scholars as John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, and Tejaswini GantiPrecarious Creativityoffers timely critiques of media globalization while also intervening in broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and index
MODID-e8b1087c449:University of California Press
MODID-00000000455:Business & Law OERs
MODID-efe30aa79b8:Luminos Collection/Library Membership
MODID-00000000488:Knowledge Unlatched
ISBN:0520290852
9780520290853
0520964802
9780520964808
DOI:10.1525/luminos.10