FAV181 Globalization of Film Production

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Monday 14:10–18:15 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- understand and explain the processes of globalization of film production;
- work with information on concrete runaway productions to articulate key questions about globalization of media.
Syllabus
  • A seminar focusing on Hollywood runaway production in Prague. Individual case studies will ask questions relating general topics like:
  • - local/global (“glocal”) production, runaway production/ co-production
  • - Global Production Networks (GPN) = networks combining concentrated dispersion of the value chain across national boundaries with a parallel process of integration of hierarchical layers of network participants
  • - labour geographies: outsourcing, offshoring, New International Division of Cultural Labor (NICL)
  • - cultural technology transfer, impurities of production systems
  • - societal, network and territorial embeddedness
Literature
    required literature
  • Wasko, Janet and Mary Erickson, eds. Cross-Border Cultural Production: Economic Runaway or Globalization? Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2008.
    recommended literature
  • Scott, Allen J. The Cultural Economy of Cities. London: Sage, 2000.
  • Elmer, Greg and Mike Gasher, eds. Contracting Out Hollywood. Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting. Lanham (MD): Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
  • Miller, Toby, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, Richard Maxwell and Ting Wang. Global Hollywood 2. London: BFI – University of California Press, 2005.
  • Goldsmith, Ben and Tom OʼRegan. The Film Studio: Film Production in the Global Economy. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
  • Ezra, Elizabeth and Terry Rowden, eds. Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
  • Hozic, Aida A. Hollyworld: Space, Power, and Fantasy in the American Economy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Teaching methods
Seminar, case studies.
Assessment methods
presentation of a case study
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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