The Rise of Hollywood East: Regional Film Offices as Intermediaries in Film and Television Production Clusters
Foster, P., Manning, S., Terkla, D. 2015. “The Rise of Hollywood East: Regional Film Offices as Intermediaries in Film and Television Production Clusters”. Regional Studies, 49 (3), 433-450.
47 Pages Posted: 25 Apr 2013 Last revised: 3 Dec 2017
Date Written: April 24, 2013
Abstract
Prior research on project-based organizing in creative industries has emphasized the importance of regionally embedded institutions, creative networks and intermediaries in the development of regional project ecologies. Recently, film and television production in the United States has expanded beyond traditional clusters in Hollywood and New York to new locations in the United States, Canada and overseas, raising important questions about the dynamics of increasingly mobile creative project networks. Using data on the Massachusetts film and television industry between 1998 and 2010, we argue that regional film offices play an increasingly important role as network intermediaries in connecting mobile creative professionals and project entrepreneurs from outside a cluster with labor pools, service providers, and production locations inside a cluster on a project-by-project basis.
Keywords: Creative industries, project organizing, cluster development, film industry, project networks, intermediaries
JEL Classification: J23, J24, J44, J31, M51, M53, M54, L14, L21, L22, L24, L62, L84, O14, R11, P45, P48, F59, F21, F22
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