Industrial reflexivity and common sense -- Trade stories and career capital -- Trade rituals and turf marking -- Trade images and imagined communities (below the line) -- Trade machines and manufactured identities (below the line) -- Industrial auteur theory (above the line/creative) -- Industrial identity theory (above the line/business) -- Industrial reflexivity as viral marketing -- Shoot-outs, bake-offs, and speed dating (manic disclosure/non-disclosure) -- Appendix 1 : Method : artifacts and cultural practices in production studies -- Appendix 2 : A taxonomy of DVD bonus track strategies and functions -- Appendix 3 : Practitioner avowal/disavowal (industrial doublespeak) -- Appendix 4 : Corporate reflexivity vs. worker reflexivity (the two warring flipsides of industrial self-disclosure)
Summary
An investigation of the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles based film and video production workers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-443) and index
