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 confronting...

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Other Authors:	Sanson, Kevin (Editor), Curtin, Michael (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Mass media > Employees. Mass media and globalization. Labor and globalization. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies. The arts. Sociology: work and labour. Sociology. Sociology and anthropology. Society and social sciences Society and social sciences. Society and culture: general. Social issues and processes. Media studies. Globalization. Films, cinema. Film, TV and radio. Travail precaire > Aspect social. Industries culturelles > Personnel. Medias > Personnel. Medias et mondialisation. Travail et mondialisation. Precarious employment > Social aspects. Cultural industries > Employees. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Precarious creativity: global media, local labor / Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson
Cybertarian flexibility
when prosumers join the cognitariat, all that is scholarship melts into air / Toby Miller
Spec-world, craft-world, brand-world / John T. Caldwell
Film/city: cinema, affect and immaterial labor in urban India / Shanti Kumar
The production of extras in a precarious creative economy / Vicki Mayer
Talent agenting in the age of conglomerates / Violaine Roussel
Transnational crews and postsocialist precarity: globalizing screen media labor in Prague / Petr Szczepanik
The cost of business: gender dynamics of media labor in Afghanistan / Matt Sienkiewicz
"No one thinks in Hindi here": language hierarchies in Bollywood / Tejaswini Ganti
Complex labor relations in Latin American television industries / Juan Piñón
Labor in Lagos : alternative global networks / Jade Miller
Creative precarity in the adult film industry / Heather Berg and Constance Penley
Strategies for success? Navigating Hollywood's "post-racial" labor practices / Kristen J. Warner
Games production in Australia: adapting to precariousness / John Banks and Stuart Cunningham
Redefining creative labor: East Asian comparisons / Anthony Fung
Unbundling precarious creativity in China: "know how" and "knowing to" / Michael Keane
Revolutionary creative labor / Marwan M. Kraidy
Precarious diversity: representation and demography / Herman Gray
The precarity and politics of media advocacy work / Allison Perlman
Internationalizing labor activism: building solidarity among writers' guilds / Miranda Banks and David Hesmondhalgh.

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