Kevin Sanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6211003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Sanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanson |
| SIGNATURE | SANSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9288-1698 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In search of purpose: The ABC, SBS, and the uncertain future of public service media in Australia
Public service media (PSM) in Australia operate with an unusual absence of articulated expectations, including enforceable minimum levels of Australian content. The ABC and SBS have legislated charters that codify broad purposes and protect editorial independence, yet there is no structured mechanism to review remit, performance, or resourcing. This article argues that the resulting ‘independence’ is double-edged: it limits direct ministerial dir…
Deferred promises, uncertain futures: The ambivalent politics of infrastructure in the Scottish studio saga (1997–2018)
This article examines the long and uneven struggle, from the late 1990s to 2018, to establish a permanent film and television studio in Scotland, situating the eventual delivery of large-scale facilities at Leith and Wardpark within wider transformations in the global screen economy. Drawing on policy documents, parliamentary inquiries, trade press coverage, and more than a dozen interviews with practitioners and officials, the article traces how…
Disrupted Paydays: Existential and Material Threats to Hollywood Compensation Practices
This article explores the current crisis in compensation within the U.S. film and television industry as a symptom of deeper structural adjustments. While recent strikes and public outcry highlight growing anxieties among creative workers, the issue extends beyond simple labor-capital conflict. By tracing the historical evolution of pay practices and examining the industry's shifting economic base, the article argues that traditional compensation…
Foreign Ownership of Production Companies as a New Mechanism of Internationalizating Television: The Case of Australian Scripted Television
This article explores the rise in foreign television production company ownership at the beginning of the twenty-first century as a new mechanism of internationalization. It joins mechanisms such as foreign program sales and transnational satellite channels in shifting television further from its domestic origins. To date, examination of television’s internationalization has focused on programs and programming. Foreign ownership may be a less obv…
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and chal…
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
In most parts of the world, screen media workers—actors, directors, gaffers, and makeup artists—consider Hollywood to be glamorous and aspirational. If given the opportunity to work on a major studio lot, many would make the move, believing the standards of professionalism are high and the history of accomplishment is renowned. Moreover, as a global leader, Hollywood offers the chance to rub shoulders with talented counterparts and network with a…
Hulu, streaming, and the contemporary television ecosystem
In this essay, we take up three distinctive features of the US-based subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform Hulu: its ownership structure, its business deals, and its televisual aesthetics. Although there are substantial overlaps among these categories, we approach each of them separately so as to better enable us to link our analyses to some of the key questions and concerns about what contemporary television has become and how it should b…
Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood
Motion pictures are made , not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality—all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood’s craft and creative workers. The interviews collected here showcase the pleasures that attract people to careers in film and television. They also reflect critically on changes in the workplace brought about by corporate conglomeration and globalization. Rather than o…
Stitching it all together: Service producers and the spatial dynamics of screen media labor
The following draws attention to the rather messy and uncertain aspects of international production as well as the increasingly shared turmoil screen media workers face no matter their geographical location. I argue that international production is not just an inevitable consequence of cost cutting and public subsidy but a product of human labor obscured in both popular and scholarly accounts of runaway production. I furthermore highlight the con…
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
"Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies …
Location and labor: Critical crossroads in global film and television
I approached the editorial prompt as an opportunity to work through some of the concerns driving my current research on creative labor in emergent or ‘peripheral’ media hubs, centers of production activity outside established media capitals that are nevertheless increasingly integrated into a global production apparatus. It builds from my research on the role that film, television and digital media production have played in the economic and cultu…
Connected viewing: Selling, streaming, and sharing media in the digital era
As patterns of media use become more integrated with mobile technologies and multiple screens, a new mode of viewer engagement has emerged in the form of connected viewing, which allows for an array of new relationships between audiences and media texts in the digital space. This exciting new collection brings together twelve original essays that critically engage with the socially-networked, multi-platform, and cloud-based world of today, examin…
Corresponding Geographies: Remapping Work and Workplace in the Age of Digital Media
This essay makes three related claims about digital media creative clusters through a case study of the Hub in Glasgow, Scotland. First, online social networking platforms are an increasingly “common sense” feature that property developers include to attract media workers to purpose-built properties. Second, integrating and managing professional identities through the construction of place are considered necessary to promote that place to a large…
Connected Viewing
We Don't Want Your Must-See TV: Transatlantic Television and the Failed “Coupling” Format
NBC's failed attempt to remake the BBC's Coupling generated a significant amount of press coverage in summer 2003. At the core of the debate was a struggle to reconcile an increasingly integrated transatlantic television market with traditional assumptions about culture and its authentic connection to space and place. The interest in the remake not only created a space where certain national differences were played out and performed but also faci…
Hulu, streaming, and the contemporary television ecosystem
In this essay, we take up three distinctive features of the US-based subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform Hulu: its ownership structure, its business deals, and its televisual aesthetics. Although there are substantial overlaps among these categories, we approach each of them separately so as to better enable us to link our analyses to some of the key questions and concerns about what contemporary television has become and how it should b…
Foreign Ownership of Production Companies as a New Mechanism of Internationalizating Television: The Case of Australian Scripted Television
This article explores the rise in foreign television production company ownership at the beginning of the twenty-first century as a new mechanism of internationalization. It joins mechanisms such as foreign program sales and transnational satellite channels in shifting television further from its domestic origins. To date, examination of television’s internationalization has focused on programs and programming. Foreign ownership may be a less obv…
Corresponding Geographies: Remapping Work and Workplace in the Age of Digital Media
This essay makes three related claims about digital media creative clusters through a case study of the Hub in Glasgow, Scotland. First, online social networking platforms are an increasingly “common sense” feature that property developers include to attract media workers to purpose-built properties. Second, integrating and managing professional identities through the construction of place are considered necessary to promote that place to a large…
We Don't Want Your Must-See TV: Transatlantic Television and the Failed “Coupling” Format
NBC's failed attempt to remake the BBC's Coupling generated a significant amount of press coverage in summer 2003. At the core of the debate was a struggle to reconcile an increasingly integrated transatlantic television market with traditional assumptions about culture and its authentic connection to space and place. The interest in the remake not only created a space where certain national differences were played out and performed but also faci…
We Don't Want Your Must-See TV: Transatlantic Television and the Failed “Coupling” Format
NBC's failed attempt to remake the BBC's Coupling generated a significant amount of press coverage in summer 2003. At the core of the debate was a struggle to reconcile an increasingly integrated transatlantic television market with traditional assumptions about culture and its authentic connection to space and place. The interest in the remake not only created a space where certain national differences were played out and performed but also faci…
Connected Viewing
Location and labor: Critical crossroads in global film and television
I approached the editorial prompt as an opportunity to work through some of the concerns driving my current research on creative labor in emergent or ‘peripheral’ media hubs, centers of production activity outside established media capitals that are nevertheless increasingly integrated into a global production apparatus. It builds from my research on the role that film, television and digital media production have played in the economic and cultu…
Connected viewing: Selling, streaming, and sharing media in the digital era
As patterns of media use become more integrated with mobile technologies and multiple screens, a new mode of viewer engagement has emerged in the form of connected viewing, which allows for an array of new relationships between audiences and media texts in the digital space. This exciting new collection brings together twelve original essays that critically engage with the socially-networked, multi-platform, and cloud-based world of today, examin…
Corresponding Geographies: Remapping Work and Workplace in the Age of Digital Media
This essay makes three related claims about digital media creative clusters through a case study of the Hub in Glasgow, Scotland. First, online social networking platforms are an increasingly “common sense” feature that property developers include to attract media workers to purpose-built properties. Second, integrating and managing professional identities through the construction of place are considered necessary to promote that place to a large…
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
"Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies …
Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood
Motion pictures are made , not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality—all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood’s craft and creative workers. The interviews collected here showcase the pleasures that attract people to careers in film and television. They also reflect critically on changes in the workplace brought about by corporate conglomeration and globalization. Rather than o…
Stitching it all together: Service producers and the spatial dynamics of screen media labor
The following draws attention to the rather messy and uncertain aspects of international production as well as the increasingly shared turmoil screen media workers face no matter their geographical location. I argue that international production is not just an inevitable consequence of cost cutting and public subsidy but a product of human labor obscured in both popular and scholarly accounts of runaway production. I furthermore highlight the con…
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and chal…
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
In most parts of the world, screen media workers—actors, directors, gaffers, and makeup artists—consider Hollywood to be glamorous and aspirational. If given the opportunity to work on a major studio lot, many would make the move, believing the standards of professionalism are high and the history of accomplishment is renowned. Moreover, as a global leader, Hollywood offers the chance to rub shoulders with talented counterparts and network with a…
Hulu, streaming, and the contemporary television ecosystem
In this essay, we take up three distinctive features of the US-based subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform Hulu: its ownership structure, its business deals, and its televisual aesthetics. Although there are substantial overlaps among these categories, we approach each of them separately so as to better enable us to link our analyses to some of the key questions and concerns about what contemporary television has become and how it should b…
Foreign Ownership of Production Companies as a New Mechanism of Internationalizating Television: The Case of Australian Scripted Television
This article explores the rise in foreign television production company ownership at the beginning of the twenty-first century as a new mechanism of internationalization. It joins mechanisms such as foreign program sales and transnational satellite channels in shifting television further from its domestic origins. To date, examination of television’s internationalization has focused on programs and programming. Foreign ownership may be a less obv…
Disrupted Paydays: Existential and Material Threats to Hollywood Compensation Practices
This article explores the current crisis in compensation within the U.S. film and television industry as a symptom of deeper structural adjustments. While recent strikes and public outcry highlight growing anxieties among creative workers, the issue extends beyond simple labor-capital conflict. By tracing the historical evolution of pay practices and examining the industry's shifting economic base, the article argues that traditional compensation…
In search of purpose: The ABC, SBS, and the uncertain future of public service media in Australia
Public service media (PSM) in Australia operate with an unusual absence of articulated expectations, including enforceable minimum levels of Australian content. The ABC and SBS have legislated charters that codify broad purposes and protect editorial independence, yet there is no structured mechanism to review remit, performance, or resourcing. This article argues that the resulting ‘independence’ is double-edged: it limits direct ministerial dir…
Deferred promises, uncertain futures: The ambivalent politics of infrastructure in the Scottish studio saga (1997–2018)
This article examines the long and uneven struggle, from the late 1990s to 2018, to establish a permanent film and television studio in Scotland, situating the eventual delivery of large-scale facilities at Leith and Wardpark within wider transformations in the global screen economy. Drawing on policy documents, parliamentary inquiries, trade press coverage, and more than a dozen interviews with practitioners and officials, the article traces how…
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Advertising (3 works)