scholarly journals Taking it to the Streets: French Cultural Worker Resistance and the Creation of a Precariat Movement

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bodnar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Lieu De Travail ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Worker Resistance ◽  
Cultural Worker

Abstract: This article examines the intermittent cultural workers movement in France leading up to and including the 2003 strike that paralyzed the film and television production industries. Crucial to understanding the strike are the ways workers defined their labour in the cultural industries in the decade leading up to the strike. Such ideas were often at odds with government, employer, and even union understandings of labour in the sector. In using the concepts of immaterial labour and precarity to discuss the movement, the author argues that these workers movements might be understood as examples of syndicalism, enacted outside the traditional categories of the workplace and professional crafts. Résumé : Cet article examine le mouvement des intermittents du spectacle en France conduisant à et incluant la grève 2003 qui a paralysé les industries de production de film et de télévision. Pour comprendre la grève il est essentielle de comprendre la manière dont les ouvriers ont défini leur travail dans les industries culturelles dans la décennie précédant la grève. De telles idées étaient souvent en désaccord avec le gouvernement, l’employeur et même les vues des syndicats du travail dans le secteur. En employant les concepts du travail immaterial et du précarité pour discuter le mouvement, cet article soutient que ces mouvements ouvriers pourraient être compris comme exemples de syndicalisme, promulgué hors des catégories traditionnelles des métiers et de lieu de travail.

Professional Information Needs of Library Specialists in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Marina Y. Neshcheret
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Information Process ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Professional Information ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The article is devoted to the comprehensive study of the professional information needs (IN) of specialists of the central libraries of the subjects of the Russian Federation. The rapid development of high technologies in the field of accumulation, transmission and processing of information, the creation of modern telecommunications systems have led to the emergence of fundamentally new opportunities for organizing the information process. This, in turn, led to the qualitative growth of IN specialists, including those employed in the field of library activities. The specific features of IN library specialists are determined by their place and role in the modern process of cultural activity, industry orientation, nature of work and specialization. During 2018—2019, the Centre for Research of Problems of the Development of Libraries in the Information Society of the Russian State Library carried out research aimed at comprehensive study of the information needs of cultural workers employed in the library sphere. At the first stage of the research, there was comprehended the existing experience of studying professional information needs in the national library science. At the second stage, using the method of questionnaire survey, information needs of library specialists were studied in order to identify the most rational forms and methods of providing them. The analysis of the survey results made it possible to identify the sources of professional information, to reveal information resources that have the greatest importance and characterize specific features of librarians’ information needs.The author concludes on the need to expand the access to full-text databases and electronic versions of periodicals for library staff. The creation of integrated information centre could help providing library professionals with professional information. Currently, the function of such a centre is performed by the National Electronic Library, which includes the professional section for library specialists. The results of the study form theoretical and methodological basis for the rational use of resources and potential of libraries in providing information to professional information needs of library specialists and determine the prospects for further research related to improving the forms and methods of information service for this category of users.

Do State Corporate Tax Incentives Create Jobs? Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Entertainment Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Thom
Keyword(s):  
Employment Growth ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
The United States ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Corporate Tax ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Incentive Programs ◽  
Quasi Experimental

Policy makers allocate billions of dollars each year to tax incentives that increasingly favor creative industries. This study scrutinizes that approach by examining motion picture incentive programs used in over thirty states to encourage film and television production. It uses a quasi-experimental strategy to determine whether those programs have contributed to employment growth. Results mostly show no statistically significant effects. Results also indicate that domestic employment is unaffected by competing incentives offered outside the United States. These findings are robust to several alternative models and should lead policy makers to question the wisdom of targeted incentives conferred on creative industries.

Imagined spectators

Target ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Home Entertainment ◽  
Automated Translation ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Research Questions

Abstract This article considers theoretical and methodological questions of language and translation policy in the dissemination of audiovisual products across languages. This is an area where scholarly research is inevitably playing catch-up with rapid change both in the language industries and in film and television production. For example, we have a general sense of ‘dubbing territories’ and ‘subtitling territories’ but in reality the picture is more complex. Norms changed in the course of the home entertainment revolution, with the arrival of the DVD format in the late 1990s ostensibly increasing viewer choice and flexibility of translation provision. The relocation of much audiovisual material to an online environment has also generated fundamental changes in the way that works circulate, with volunteer translators and automated translation processes playing a larger role. Policy developments in access translation have meant that there have also been great changes relatively recently in the availability of SDH subtitling, audio description and other modes of access translation. This is a very broad field which raises many compelling research questions. At the same time, its very breadth does not lend itself to a comprehensive overview. The article will therefore aim to provide an orientation to, rather than a summary of, the theoretical and methodological challenges of research on this topic.

scholarly journals Gay the right way? Roles and routines of Irish media production among gay and lesbian workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne O’Brien ◽  
Páraic Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Production Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Irish Film ◽  
The Right

This article explores how gay and lesbian identities are incorporated, or not, into the roles and routines of Irish film and television production. Data were gathered in 2018–2019 through semi-structured interviews with a purposive, snowball sample of 10 people who work in the Irish industries. The key findings are that for gay and lesbian workers their minority sexual identity impacts on the roles that they are likely to be included and excluded from. Sexuality also affects their promotion prospects and their career progression. Similarly, in terms of routines of production, gay and lesbian workers are associated with certain genres, based on stereotypical assumptions about their sexual identities by their hetero-managers and colleagues. In short, Irish gay and lesbian media workers articulated an overarching tension between the heteronormativity of the industry and the queerness of the gay and lesbian media worker. Some workers respond to that tension by adopting a homonormative approach to work while others attempt to forge a queer way of producing.

Nordic production studies at the edge of the 2020s

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Novrup Redvall
Keyword(s):  
Audience Studies ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Production Studies ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Current Trends

This article outlines the main developments in Nordic film and television production studies in the 2000s, focusing on recent publications as well as the value of research collaborations, centres and conferences. The article also highlights current trends such as an ongoing interest in creating stronger connections between production and audience studies.

Moving beyond Banksy and Fairey: Interrogating the co-optation and commodification of modern graffiti and street art

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Ian Ross ◽  
John F. Lennon ◽  
Ronald Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Real Estate Developers

This editorial reviews the co-optation and commodification of modern graffiti and street art. In so doing, it analyses attempts by individuals and organizations to monetize the creation, production and dissemination of graffiti and street art. The commodification process often starts with attempts by graffiti and street artists to earn money through their work and then progresses to efforts primarily by cultural industries to integrate graffiti and street art into the products and services that they sell. This latter development can also include how selected property owners and real-estate developers invite artists to create works in or on their buildings or in particular neighbourhoods to make the areas more desirable. After the authors have established this context, they draw together the divergent themes from the four articles contained in this Special Issue.

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