Mobile Hollywood

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Contemporary film and television production is extraordinarily mobile. Filming large-scale studio productions in Atlanta, Budapest, London, Prague, or Australia's Gold Coast makes Hollywood jobs available to people and places far removed from Southern California-but it also requires individuals to uproot their lives as they travel around the world in pursuit of work.Drawing on interviews with a global contingent of film and television workers, Kevin Sansonweaves an analysis of the sheer scale and complexity ofmobile production into acompelling account of the impact that mobility has had on job functions, working conditions, and personal lives.Mobile Hollywoodcaptures how an expanded geography of productionnot only intensifies the often invisible pressures that production workers now face but also stretchesthe parameters of screen-media laborfar beyondcraftwork and creativity.