Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans

Vicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane University. She is coeditor of the journal Television & New Media and author or editor of several books and journal articles about media production, creative industries, and cultural work.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: I’m Just a Film Tax CreditIntroduction: Presenting Hollywood South1. The Making of Regional Film Economies: Why La. Is Not L.A.2. Hollywood South: Structural to Visceral Reorganizations of Space3. The Place of Treme in the Film Economy: Love and Labor for Hollywood South(Almost a) ConclusionAppendix: A Guide to Decoding Film Economy Claims and Press CoverageNotesIndex

"Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans adroitly probes The Crescent City’s ambivalent relation to its status as Hollywood South. … [the] book constitutes a timely contribution to the study of media industries for its thorough accounting of the debts incurred by a state like Louisiana and a city like New Orleans—and the unequal ways in which those burdens are distributed across racially and socioeconomically divided landscapes."