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Why are big budget films typically made across an array of seemingly dissociated sites?
Supply Chain Cinema shows how the production journeys of such films exemplify the principles of the supply chain, whose core imperative is to nimbly and opportunistically manufacturing wherever is most amenable and efficient.
Through extensive on-site investigations and in-depth interviews with film professionals, Kay Dickinson delivers nuanced insight into working practices in the UK and the UAE. Among the sites she examines is Warner Bros' permanent base at Leavesden Studios near London. From tax breaks designed to attract foreign projects to infrastructures, logistical support and expertise offered, she considers why Hollywood giants elect to make more of their films in Britain than in the USA.
Dickinson goes on to show how the UK's ambitions to enlarge its creative economies has opened up a host of competitive advantages with British higher education increasingly fashioned to conform to the needs of border-hopping enterprise, thus generating a workforce keenly adapted to the demands of blockbuster moviemaking.
Table of Contents
1. Welcome (to) the Supply Chain: Competition, Adaptation and Compliance with Globalized Big Budget Cinema
2. Hollywood Offshores to British Shores: Warner Bros' Leavesden Studios Rides the Rise of the Creative Economy
3. Training Creative Wizardry: How British Filmmaking Education Attracts Supply Chain Cinema
4. Greasing the Wheels of Transnational Media Production: The United Arab Emirates' Post-Oil Vision for Education
5. Production Migrates to the Migrants: Precarious Film Labour in the UAE's Free Zones
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Product details
Published | Aug 21 2025 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 188 |
ISBN | 9781839024665 |
Imprint | British Film Institute |
Illustrations | 0 bw illus |
Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
Series | International Screen Industries |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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