Mobile Hollywood

"Mobile Hollywood persuasively encourages major rethinking of how we understand the dynamics of transnational film and television production. Crucially, Kevin Sanson's attention to the lived experiences of media workers illuminates the everyday employment conditions, invisible logistical coordination tasks, and practical organizational frictions inherent in creating screen entertainment across global space."--Paul McDonald, author of George Clooney "Mobile Hollywood deftly excavates the trend toward footloose production in the media industries. In this richly researched and theorized volume, Sanson explores how media workers around the world have adapted to transnational production demands. Every course in global media, media industries, and production studies should adopt this book."--Timothy Havens, author of Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe "Mobile Hollywood examines a conspicuous yet taken-for-granted characteristic of contemporary Hollywood: that the industry can be defined by its extraordinary mobility. Based on extensive fieldwork, Sanson provides a fascinating portrait of mobile film and TV productions and how mobility has reshaped Hollywood jobs, craft practices, and workers' lives."--Daniel Gómez Steinhart, author of Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting "The first monograph​ to articulate a perspective on Hollywood as international and mobile through a production studies lens, Mobile Hollywood takes on a critical question in the discipline: Are media industries best described as place-based or global? Engagingly written and sharply observed, Sanson's latest book--firmly grounded in the experiences of film workers themselves--will be an invaluable contribution to the field."--Jade L. Miller, author of Nollywood Central: The Nigerian Videofilm Industry