Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production

by Hye Jean Chung

In Media Heterotopias Hye Jean Chung challenges the widespread tendency among audiences and critics to disregard the material conditions of digital film production. Drawing on interviews with directors, producers, special effects supervisors, and other film industry workers, Chung traces how the rhetorical and visual emphasis on seamlessness masks the social, political, and economic realities of global filmmaking and digital labor. In films...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822370239
• ISBN13: 9780822370239
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"