The Production of Global Web Series in a Networked Age

ISBN-13: 9781032022352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 262 str.

Guy Healy

Opis

This book tells the story of diverse online creators--women, ethnic and racial minorities, queer folk and those from hardscrabble backgrounds--producing low budget, high cultural impact web-series which have disrupted longstanding white male domination of the film and TV industries.

Spis treści

Preface by Tina Cesa Ward;  Chapter 1 Introduction;  Chapter 2: Absurdist YouTube animator Chris Voigt’s journey to EMMY-winning, Bluey;  Chapter 3: Rapprochement across the divides: the Saidden brothers aka Superwog and Emmy-nominated Princess Pictures;  Chapter 4: The dark cinematic dreams of the Philippou twins, aka RackaRacka;  Chapter 5: The world’s #3 online dessert chef, and developmental activist, Ann Reardon ‘stuck in the algorithms’;  Chapter 6: The blood, sweat and tears of Shae-lee Shackleford and SketchSHE;  Chapter 7: Julie Kalceff…not sitting in a room on her own;  Chapter 8 : Erin Good, Taylor Litton-Strain and fantasy-noir web-pilot, Jade of Death;  Chapter 9: Bending algorithmic culture to serve post-TV storytelling;  Chapter 10 Tina Cesa Ward: The New York film director who fell into web-series;  Chapter 11: the Garden in YouTube’s Machine;  Appendix 1: Career mobility paths of Skip Ahead alumni, 2014–19;   Appendix 2: Three keys to sustainability for web-series makers, 2005 to 2021, based on Murdock and Goldings’ (2016, 764) three economies;  Index

O autorze

Dr Guy Healy works as a researcher on an Australian Research Council project investigating the role of the web-series globally. Healy worked for about a decade at The Australian newspaper, mainly as a higher education writer; and for BBC Wildlife magazine as a freelance correspondent investigating species-level threats to wildlife. His most important story reported on calls from zoologists warning that research funding into, and surveillance of bat-borne viruses in Asia, Africa and elsewhere, had to be prioritized, in 2009