[ecrea] New Book--Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production

I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book, */Media 
Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film 
Production/* (Duke University Press), and hope that it will be of 
interest to people on this list. */Media Heterotopias /*challenges the 
widespread tendency among audiences and critics to disregard the 
material conditions of digital film production, and explores how this 
emphasis on seamlessness masks the complex social, political, and 
economic realities of global filmmaking.


For more information, and to order the paperback at a 30% discount, 
please visit https://www.dukeupress.edu/media-heterotopias 
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/media-heterotopias> and enter coupon code 
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-misinterpellated-subject>E18CHUNG during 
checkout. Here's the PDF file of the introduction: 
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-7023-9_601.pdf.

"Hye Jean Chung's ambitious and provocative project provides a 
multilevel account that synthesizes issues of disruptive digital 
‘workflows,’ with Foucault's theory, and a prescient account of 
globalization in order to demonstrate how each works at the close-up 
level of the composited film text. This is the rare production studies 
book that avoids the traps of trade-speak, even as it makes theory and 
culture inextricable from our understanding of industry." — *John T. 
Caldwell*, author of /Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and 
Critical Practice in Film and Television/

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"Following Foucault's notion of 'heterotopia,' of topoi or even utopoi 
composed of multiple platforms layered and contested that are rendered 
into a single, phantasmatic whole, Hye Jean Chung proposes 'media 
heterotopias' as a way to understand the infusion of digital effects in 
contemporary cinema. At the heart of her analysis lies an affective 
paradox that transforms complexity, distortion, and incongruity in 
digital cinemas into the narcotic illusion of 'seamlessness.' At once 
erudite, rigorous, and highly speculative, Chung's contribution to the 
scholarship on digital cinemas suggests a frenzy of incoherence driving 
the soothing surfaces of digital effects and the labor that generates 
them." — *Akira Mizuta Lippit*, author of /Cinema without Reflection: 
Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift//
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