Secret lives of Asian Australian cinema: offshore labour in transnational film industries
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2008
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Studies in Australasian Cinema
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Melbourne Authors
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Faculty of Arts, Culture and Communication
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Lobato, R. (2008). Secret lives of Asian Australian cinema: offshore labour in transnational film industries. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 2(3), 213-227.
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This is a pre-print of an article published in Studies in Australasian Cinema, 2008, published by Intellect Ltd. This version is reproduced under the publisher’s author licence agreement. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=118/
Abstract
This article examines some of the material dimensions of Asian Australian cinema through an analysis of selected regional production and post-production flows since 1980, and the debates surrounding them. It begins with a theoretical discussion of the role of labour within the global film industry, before moving on to consider controversies around the offshoring of film production to lower-cost destinations. Specific examples of production relays between Asia and Australia are analysed in the context of models of cultural labour offered by Toby Miller et al. and Ben Goldsmith. The author proposes a definition of Asian Australian cinema that seeks to attend to cross-border collaboration at a variety of levels and to render visible 'below-the-line' Asian Australian interfaces that do not necessarily register on screen.
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offshore production, runaway production, cultural industries, film, Australia, Asia, cultural labour