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Framing city networks through temporary projects: (trans)national film production beyond ‘Global Hollywood’
journal contribution
posted on 2018-07-16, 09:28 authored by Michael HoylerMichael Hoyler, Allan WatsonAllan WatsonThis paper advances research on external urban relations by drawing attention to the role of
temporary project-based economic organisation in the formation of inter-firm links between
cities. Through a novel empirical examination of (trans)national co-production in the motion picture industry, we reveal how such projects transcend the boundaries of individual
production clusters and link urban centres within specific network configurations. Stripping away the ‘top layer’ of Hollywood’s commercially successful feature films, we undertake a social network analysis of film productions in four markets across three continents – China, Germany, France and Brazil – to provide a unique comparative analysis of networked urban geographies. Our findings show that film production networks are grounded in existing structural relations between cities. The spatial forms of these networks range from
monocentric in the case of the French film market, to dyadic in the case of China and
Brazil, to polycentric in the case of the German film market. Conceptually, we argue that
adopting an inter-firm project-based approach can account for the ways in which complex
patterns of inter-firm production relations accumulate to form (trans)national city-networks. Viewing city networks in this way provides an important alternative perspective to
dominant conceptualisations of global urban networks as formed through corporate intrafirm
relations.
History
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Urban StudiesVolume
56Issue
5Pages
943-959Citation
HOYLER, M. and WATSON, A., 2019. Framing city networks through temporary projects: (trans)national film production beyond ‘Global Hollywood’. Urban Studies, 56 (5), pp.943-959.Publisher
Sage (© Urban Studies Journal Limited)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-07-02Publication date
2018-10-03Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Urban Studies and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018790735ISSN
0042-0980eISSN
1360-063XPublisher version
Language
- en