As increasing numbers of Hollywood-produced movies are being filmed in Canada and elsewhere, a rising number of complaints have been voiced about "runaway production," while others counter that
it is merely "global business." Wasko (communication research, U. of Oregon) and Erickson (a doctoral candidate in journalism and communication at the U. of Oregon) present 11 chapters from an
April 2006 conference examining issues of cross-border production. Topics addressed include the new international division of labor in media work; the problems of outsourcing knowledge and
media labor; Hollywood unions and the fight for work; defining location interests of movie production; film strategies and policies of Louisiana, New Zealand, and Canada; cross-border
adaptation of interactive media productions; and cultural power in international television markets. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
