{"product_id":"media-heterotopias-9780822370239","title":"Media Heterotopias","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHye 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMedia Heterotopias\u003c\/i\u003e’ 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"As a method of exploring and articulating the digital imaginary and fantasies of transnational or cosmopolitan other places, \u003ci\u003eMedia Heterotopias\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Heterotopic Media: Assembling the Global in Digital Cinema  37\u003cbr\u003e 2. Heterotopic Mapping: \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAshes of Time Redux\u003c\/i\u003e  45\u003cbr\u003e 3. Heterotopic Modularity: \u003ci\u003eAvatar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInterstellar\u003c\/i\u003e 75\u003cbr\u003e 4. Heterotopic Monstrosity: \u003ci\u003eThe Host\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGodzilla\u003c\/i\u003e  105\u003cbr\u003e 5. Heterotopic Materiality: \u003ci\u003eThe World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBig Hero 6\u003c\/i\u003e  141\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Seams of (Post)Digital Media Heterotopias  177\u003cbr\u003e Notes  185\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  209\u003cbr\u003e Index  219","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406107976023,"sku":"9780822370239","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822370239.jpg?v=1730494555","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/media-heterotopias-9780822370239","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}