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Negli ultimi due decenni un numero crescente di amministrazioni locali ha iniziato a considerare il cinema come un settore produttivo “utile” in grado di fungere da volano di sviluppo economico. Ciò ha portato molte di esse ad investire... more
A partire dalla fine degli anni Novanta l’industria audiovisiva indiana ha intensificato il numero di riprese effettuate all’estero, in particolar modo nei paesi occidentali. Questa migrazione di riprese rappresenta una grande occasione... more
This chapter takes political economy’s view on below the line work in U.S. runaway productions as a starting point for ethnographical observations regarding the sociomaterial construction of the film studio as workspace. It shows how the... more
in: Screening European Heritage: Creating and Consuming History on Film, eds. Paul Cooke and Rob Stone (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 25-44. The chapter examines how Europe's increasingly integrated, transnational television industry... more
The outsourcing of film shoots has long been adopted by US producers to cut costs and improve box-office performance. According to the academic literature, outsourc-ing is exploited mainly for low-and middle-budget films, but this article... more
Established in 1933, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) protects its members' rights in bargaining agreements which guarantee decent wages, safe working conditions, health care and pensions. The technological and economic mutations of the... more
In 1963, before it was established as a popular tourist destination, the poor village of Elounda (Agios Nikolaos region, Crete) was chosen as a shooting location of the Walt Disney Productions movie The Moon-Spinners (1964). Subsequently,... more
The present interview sheds light on how this came to be and the touristical impact Game of Thrones® had on Bayeux and Northern Ireland (https://journals.openedition.org/inmedia/3029)
In the past decade, Hungary has grown from a peripheral destination of Hollywood runaway productions into the second biggest European filming location. At the same time, after decades of absence from the domestic and international scenes,... more
Anthony Minghella’s recent movie, Cold Mountain, was an adaptation of Charles Frasier’s bestselling novel. The plot: A wounded confederate soldier leaves his hospital bed in Raleigh, North Carolina and makes a treacherous journey home to... more
with Melis Behlil and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, in: The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 007, ed. Jaap Verheul (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), This chapter dissects the opening sequences of Skyfall (2012) in... more
This article develops an interdisciplinary theoretical method for assessing the environmental values articulated and practiced by dispersive or “mobile” film production practices, aiming toward applicable strategies to make media... more
Local labor laws in Taiwan push migrant workers to run away from contracted employment arrangements and become undocumented. This article examines the common forms of struggle pursued by runaway Indonesian migrant workers with a focus on... more
... kind or another is assured once a place has been packaged for the screen, and that ... in place from this first fateful day, despite the somewhat haphazard nature of the tour experience ... year and the release of the final film.7 In... more
Though film-induced tourism has become a relatively new aspect of tourism studies, it nevertheless belongs to the numerous contemporay tourism-linked activities bringing people to a specific country...... more