Description
Book SynopsisHye Jean Chung challenges the widespread tendency among audiences and critics to disregard the material conditions of digital film production, showing how this emphasis on seamlessness masks the complex social, political, and economic realities of global filmmaking.
Trade Review"Chung’s 'media heterotopias' could be of immense use as a strategic motivator of more work that is oriented toward activist, political stakes in the spatiotemporal mappings of yet unfolding digital age ecologies." -- Amy R. Wong * ASAP/Journal *
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Media Heterotopias’ ambitious effort to 'reassert the materiality of global film production' serves as valuable encouragement to deconstruct the ever-more refined illusions of unity in international film production through new approaches in thinking and viewing. The breadth of ideas and the quality of research presented in Chung’s work regularly enlightens, just as it orients us towards the political stakes of filmmaking." -- Sarika Joglekar * Synoptique *
"As a method of exploring and articulating the digital imaginary and fantasies of transnational or cosmopolitan other places,
Media Heterotopias is an inspiring and intriguing accompaniment to the work of production studies and media industries scholars who focus directly on the issues and conditions surrounding digital global production, labor, networks, and practices." -- Dawn Fratini * Media Industries *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Heterotopic Media: Assembling the Global in Digital Cinema 37
2. Heterotopic Mapping:
The Fall and
Ashes of Time Redux 45
3. Heterotopic Modularity:
Avatar,
Oblivion, and
Interstellar 75
4. Heterotopic Monstrosity:
The Host and
Godzilla 105
5. Heterotopic Materiality:
The World and
Big Hero 6 141
Conclusion: The Seams of (Post)Digital Media Heterotopias 177
Notes 185
Bibliography 209
Index 219
