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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- 1. Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor 1
- 2. Cybertarian Flexibility—When Prosumers Join the Cognitariat, All That Is Scholarship Melts into Air 19
- 3. Spec World, Craft World, Brand World 33
- 4. Film/City: Cinema, Affect, and Immaterial Labor in Urban India 49
- 5. The Production of Extras in a Precarious Creative Economy 63
- 6. Talent Agenting in the Age of Conglomerates 74
- 7. Transnational Crews and Postsocialist Precarity: Globalizing Screen Media Labor in Prague 88
- 8. The Cost of Business: Gender Dynamics of Media Labor in Afghanistan 104
- 9. “No One Thinks in Hindi Here”: Language Hierarchies in Bollywood 118
- 10. Complex Labor Relations in Latin American Television Industries 132
- 11. Labor in Lagos: Alternative Global Networks 146
- 12. Creative Precarity in the Adult Film Industry 159
- 13. Strategies for Success? Navigating Hollywood’s “Postracial” Labor Practices 172
- 14. Games Production in Australia: Adapting to Precariousness 186
- 15. Redefining Creative Labor: East Asian Comparisons 200
- 16. Unbundling Precarious Creativity in China: “Knowing-How” and “Knowing-To” 215
- 17. Revolutionary Creative Labor 231
- 18. Precarious Diversity: Representation and Demography 241
- 19. The Precarity and Politics of Media Advocacy Work 254
- 20. Internationalizing Labor Activism: Building Solidarity among Writers’ Guilds 267
- References 281
- Notes on Contributors 299
- Index 305
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- 1. Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor 1
- 2. Cybertarian Flexibility—When Prosumers Join the Cognitariat, All That Is Scholarship Melts into Air 19
- 3. Spec World, Craft World, Brand World 33
- 4. Film/City: Cinema, Affect, and Immaterial Labor in Urban India 49
- 5. The Production of Extras in a Precarious Creative Economy 63
- 6. Talent Agenting in the Age of Conglomerates 74
- 7. Transnational Crews and Postsocialist Precarity: Globalizing Screen Media Labor in Prague 88
- 8. The Cost of Business: Gender Dynamics of Media Labor in Afghanistan 104
- 9. “No One Thinks in Hindi Here”: Language Hierarchies in Bollywood 118
- 10. Complex Labor Relations in Latin American Television Industries 132
- 11. Labor in Lagos: Alternative Global Networks 146
- 12. Creative Precarity in the Adult Film Industry 159
- 13. Strategies for Success? Navigating Hollywood’s “Postracial” Labor Practices 172
- 14. Games Production in Australia: Adapting to Precariousness 186
- 15. Redefining Creative Labor: East Asian Comparisons 200
- 16. Unbundling Precarious Creativity in China: “Knowing-How” and “Knowing-To” 215
- 17. Revolutionary Creative Labor 231
- 18. Precarious Diversity: Representation and Demography 241
- 19. The Precarity and Politics of Media Advocacy Work 254
- 20. Internationalizing Labor Activism: Building Solidarity among Writers’ Guilds 267
- References 281
- Notes on Contributors 299
- Index 305
