Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans : The Lure of the Local Film Economy /

Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans : The Lure of the Local Film Economy /

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"Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers to become the number one location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series. Why would lawmakers support such...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayer, Vicki, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion picture industry.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
The arts.
Humanities.
History.
Film, TV and radio.
Cinema > Industrie > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Motion picture industry > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : I'm just a film tax credit
  • Introduction : presenting Hollywood South
  • The making of regional film economies : why La. is not L.A.
  • Hollywood South : structural to visceral reorganizations of space
  • The place of Treme in the film economy : love and labor for Hollywood South
  • (Almost a) conclusion
  • Appendix : a guide to decoding film economy claims and press coverage.

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