The outsourcing of film shoots has long been adopted by US producers to cut costs and improve box-office performance. According to the academic literature, outsourc-ing is exploited mainly for low-and middle-budget films, but this article aims to demonstrate that blockbusters are also migrating towards other states and countries to take part in an even more competitive film location market. It investigates 165 block-busters released between 2003 and 2013. The collected data show that blockbuster shoots are not an exclusive to California, but are re-drawing the map of film production in favour of an even more polycentric and polyglot audiovisual panorama.
Blockbuster Outsourcing. Is There Really No Place Like Home? / Marco Cucco. - In: FILM STUDIES. - ISSN 1469-0314. - STAMPA. - 13:1(2015), pp. 73-93. [10.7227/FS.13.0006]
Blockbuster Outsourcing. Is There Really No Place Like Home?
Marco Cucco
2015
Abstract
The outsourcing of film shoots has long been adopted by US producers to cut costs and improve box-office performance. According to the academic literature, outsourc-ing is exploited mainly for low-and middle-budget films, but this article aims to demonstrate that blockbusters are also migrating towards other states and countries to take part in an even more competitive film location market. It investigates 165 block-busters released between 2003 and 2013. The collected data show that blockbuster shoots are not an exclusive to California, but are re-drawing the map of film production in favour of an even more polycentric and polyglot audiovisual panorama.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
