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Article: Managing uncertainty: Defining the location interests of a Greenfield location
Tom O'Regan, Susan Ward -
Article: Experimenting with the Local and the Transnational: Television Drama Production on the Gold Coast
Tom O'Regan, Susan Ward -
Article: Servicing 'the other Hollywood': The vicissitudes of an international television production location
Susan Ward, Tom O'Regan[show abstract] [hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: elevision programming has become such a significant part of Hollywood operations that Allen J. Scott has dubbed television production and distribution the `other Hollywood'. However, it is also a sector that, over the 1900s, became subject to forces of decentralization as producers looked to alternative, more cost-efficient locations. Scott asks whether Hollywood is likely to face intensifying competition within global markets from regional production centres specializing in servicing international television production. This study charts the changing push and pull factors that directed `runaway' television production to, and then away from, one such regional production centre — the Gold Coast, Australia. This regional centre's mixed history with international production suggests the need to attend to both processes of decentralization and recentralization of production. The article concludes that concerns over potential competition to Hollywood emerging from production locations like the Gold Coast may be overstated. -
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Article: The film producer as the long-stay business tourist: Rethinking film and tourism from a Gold Coast perspective
Susan Ward, Tom O'Regan
