CFP - Runaway Productions

Call for Papers

Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting

Editors:        Greg Elmer, Boston College (elmergr@xxxxxx) 
                Mike Gasher, Concordia University (gashmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx )

The editors are seeking manuscripts for an edited book on American TV and Film 
"runaway productions" -- television programming and motion pictures that 
foreconomic reasons have, in whole or in part, left traditional centers of 
cultural production in the United States for foreign shores. While some might 
argue that the strength of the U.S. dollar has led to the growth of runaway 
productions, this collection will also seek to explain the phenomenon from 
other historical, political, economic and cultural perspectives. We are 
particularly interested in receiving manuscripts that discuss runaway 
productions as indicative of broader cultural phenomena, whether it be 
discussed as a case study, challenge to contemporary screen, media, or 
globalization theories, or as an analysis of shifting governmental policies 
toward revered, feared, or protected cultural industries.

We encourage a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches 
including, but not limited to: critical and cultural theory, cultural policy 
studies, textual analysis, political economy, media ethnography, audience 
studies, and historical analysis and critique.

Topics might include:
* The Emergence of Hollywoods North/South/East/West
* Analysis of National and sub-national Media Regulation and Legislation
* Hollywood Trade Unions: protests, policies, and government relations
* non-Hollywood labor perspectives
* Analysis of TV/Film Programming: eg. The X-Files, Network television "Movies 
of the Week", La Femme Nikita, The Matrix, Dolores Claiborne, etc.
* Regional, National, or International Case Studies
* Canadian cultural industries
* Globalization of Hollywood
* Contracting out of Film and Television Industries
* The growth of International post-production locations and studios
* California Film Policy and Politics
* Re-thinking theories of globalization
* Location shooting
* Effacing national specificity in film/TV shot locations
* The production of generic landscapes


Send an extended abstract (4-5 pages approx. 1,200 words) and CV by December 
15, 2002 to: 
Greg Elmer, Assistant Professor 
Department of Communication 
Boston College 
215 Lyons Hall 
Chestnut Hill, MA, 
USA 02467


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