9780190464462

0190464461

Issues of globalization: case studies in contemporary anthropology

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

<strong>Introduction</strong>

"The End"

The Risks of Filming Death

Themes of the Book

Framing: The Multisited and Multisighted

Access

Structure of the Book

<strong>PART 1: The Assemblages of Spectacle</strong>

<strong>Chapter 1: Contrasts, Commonalities, and Connections: Hollywood and Hong Kong</strong>

Ideological Contrasts

Industrial Overviews: Commonalities and Contrasts

Media Assemblages: Joint Productions and Collaborations

<strong>Chapter 2: The Production of Spectacle / The Spectacle of Production </strong>

The Set

"Who's the Chief?": Setwork and Authority

Spectacle and the "Cinema of Attractions"

The Reel Audience: Mediating in the Immediate

The Spectacle of Attractions: Explosions, Wizardry, and Tricks

Tensions Between Extra and Actors

Sisyphean Efforts of the Subcontractor

<strong>PART 2: Local Sets, Global Forces </strong>

<strong>Chapter 3: Gambling, Striking, and Assemblage: Hollywood on (Its) Location </strong>

Dollar Day

Standard Instability

Transnational Flows, Gender, and Race

"Strike!"

Hong Kong in Hollywood: Media Assemblage

<strong>Chapter 4: The Death Narratives of Revitalization: Colonial Governance, China, and the Reconfiguration of the Hong Kong Film Industry</strong>

The Death Narratives

"King Kong in Hong Kong": The Specter of Return

Industrial Decline

Structural Causes of Decline

Consequences of Decline

Conclusion

<strong>PART 3: PERFORMANCE AND POSSESSION</strong>

<strong>Chapter 5: Of Ghosts and Gangsters: Capitalist Cultural Production and the Hong Kong Film Industry </strong>

The Underworlds Emerge

Performance, Payment, Possession

The Spectral in the Spectacle: Constraints and Collaborations

Gangsterism: Constraints and Collaborations

Reciprocity and (Self) Censorship of Ghosts and Gangsters

The Violence in Production: Possessive Power and Payments

<strong>Chapter 6: Affective Labor: An Intersection of Performance and Possession </strong>

Introduction

Affective Labor

Laboring Between Worlds

Performance and Spirit Possession

Conclusion

<strong>Chapter 7: Camera/Chimera: Suicide, Setwork, and the Ethics of Soul Capture </strong>

A Spirited Camera: Protector or Provocateur?

"Camera Ready": Transitions and Transformations

Conclusion

<strong>Epilogue </strong>

Hong Kong

Hollywood

Notes

References Cited

Index.

Motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles > Employees > Social conditions.

Motion picture industry > China > Hong Kong > Employees > Social conditions.

Motion picture industry > Cross-cultural studies.

Work environment > Cross-cultural studies.