TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mayer,Vicki
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans : : The Lure of the Local Film Economy / 
SN  - 9780520967175
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - fast
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Film & Video
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - The arts
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Humanities
KW  - History
KW  - Film, TV and radio
KW  - Cinema
KW  - Industrie
KW  - Louisiane
KW  - La Nouvelle-Orleans
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - New Orleans
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Prologue : I'm just a film tax credit -- Introduction : presenting Hollywood South -- The making of regional film economies : why La. is not L.A. -- Hollywood South : structural to visceral reorganizations of space -- The place of Treme in the film economy : love and labor for Hollywood South -- (Almost a) conclusion -- Appendix : a guide to decoding film economy claims and press coverage; Open Access
N2  - "Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers to become the number one location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series. Why would lawmakers support such a policy? Why would citizens accept the policy's uncomfortable effects on their economy and culture? Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans answers these questions through a study of the local and everyday experiences of the film economy in New Orleans, Louisiana--a city that has twice pursued the mantle of a movie production capital. From the silent era to Hollywood South, Vicki Mayer explains that the aura of a film economy is inseparable from a prevailing sense of home, even as it changes that place irrevocably"--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63430/
ER  -