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Production Studies, The Sequel! is an exciting exploration of the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities-from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children's television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria, to seemingly-autonomous Twitterbots. Case studies examine international production cultures across five continents and incorporate a range of media, including film, television, music, social media, promotional media, video games, publishing and public broadcasting.

Using the lens of cultural studies to examine media production, Production Studies, The Sequel! takes into account transnational production flows and places production studies in conversation with other major areas of media scholarship including audience studies, media industries, and media history. A follow-up to the successful Production Studies, this collection highlights new and important research in the field, and promises to generate continued discussion about the past, present, and future of production studies.

Table of Contents


I. Tools of the Trade

1. Chris Peterson, ´I Like My Bots Like I Like My People: Weird, Mixed, Always Acting´

2. Mary Desjardins, ´Performance, Labor, and Stardom in the Era of the Synthespian´

3. Patrick Vonderau, ´How Global is Hollywood? Division of Labor from a Prop-Making Perspective´

II. Being the Brand

4. Nina Huntemann, ´Working the Booth: Promotional Models and the Value of Affective Labor´

5. Catherine Johnson and Paul Grainge, ´From Broadcast Design to 'On-Brand TV': Repositioning Expertise in the Promotional Screen Industries´

6. Kristin J. Lieb, ´Pop Stars Perform 'Gay' for The Male Gaze: The Production of Fauxmosexuality in Female Popular Music Performances and Its Representational Implications´

III. Production Pedagogies

7. Eva Novrup Redvall, ´Craft, creativity, collaboration, and connections: Educating talent for Danish television drama series´

8. Jonathan Corpus Ong, ´Charity Appeals as 'Poverty Porn'? Production Ethics in Representing Suffering Children and Typhoon Haiyan Beneficiaries in the Philippines´

9. Eva Pjajcíková and Petr Szczepanik, "Group Writing for Post-Socialist Televisionö

IV. Putting the Public Back in Public Service

10. James Bennett, ´Public Service as Production Cultures: A Contingent, Conjunctural Compact´

11. Tiziano Bonini and Alessandro Gandini, ´Invisible workers in an Invisible Medium: An Ethnographic Approach to Italian Public and Private Freelance Radio Producers´

12. Anna Zoellner, ´Detachment, Pride, Critique: Professional Identity in Independent Factual Television Production in Great Britain and Germany´

13. Mary Elizabeth Luka, ´CBC ArtSpots and the Activation of Creative Citizenship´

V. Transnational Circuits

14. Alessandro Jedlowski, ´Avenues of Participation and Strategies of Control: Video Film Production and Social Mobility in Ethiopia and Southern Nigeria´

15. Dennis Lo, ´From Experiencing Life to Life Experiences: Location Shooting Practices in Chinese and Taiwanese New Wave Cinemas´

16. John Vanderhoef and Michael Curtin, ´The Crunch Heard Round the World: The Global Era of Digital Game Labor´

VI. Redefining the Industry

17. Nicholas Boston and Brooke Erin Duffy, ´What Actually Matters: Identity, Individualization, and Aspiration in the Work of Glossy Magazine Production´

18. Alisa Perren, ´The Trick of the Trades: Media Industry Studies and the American Comic Book Industry´

19. Naomi Sakr and Jeanette Steemers, ´Co-Producing Content for Pan-Arab Children's TV: State, Business and the Workplace´

20. Deborah L. Jaramillo, ´Keep Big Government out of your Television Set: The Rhetoric of Self-Regulation Before the Television Code´