Locating Migrating Media

Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites of media production. The book's chapters also question the role that film and television industries and local and regional governments play in broader economic develop and tax incentive schemes. While metaphors of transportation, mobility, fluidity and change continue to serve as key concepts and frames for understanding contemporary media industries, products and processes, the essays in this book look to local spaces, neighborhoods, cultural workers and stories to ground the global_that is, to interrogate the effect of media globalization before, during and after film and television shooting and onsite production. By locating migrating media, these chapters seek to determine the political, economic and cultural conditions that produce contemporary forms of televisual and cinematic storytelling, and how these processes affect the inhabitants, the _look_ and the very geopolitical future of local communities, neighborhoods, cities and regions. The focus on relocated screen production highlights the act of film- and television-making, both aesthetically and economically. To locate migrating media is therefore to determine the political and cultural economies of globalized sets and stages, be they in new studios or on city streets or, perhaps most importantly, in our imaginations.

Charles H. Davis, Tamara L. Falicov, Ben Goldsmith, Janice Kaye, Barry King, Janine Marchessault, John McCullough, Albert Moran, Tom O'Regan, Jennifer VanderBurgh, Susan Ward Dr. Greg Elmer is an associate professor of radio and television arts at Ryerson University, and the director of Infoscape New Media Lab. He also coauthored Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting. Charles H. Davis is a professor at Ryerson University's School of Radio and Television Arts. Janine Marchessault is Canada research chair in art, digital media, and globalization at York University. John McCullough teaches in the Department of Film at York University.