Supply Chain Cinema

Kay Dickinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at Glasgow University, UK. She is the author of Arab Film and Video Manifestos: Forty-Five Years of the Moving Image Amid Revolution (2018), Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (British Film Institute, 2016), and Off Key: When Film and Music Won’t Work Together (2008).

• Introduction1. Welcome (to) the Supply Chain: Competition, Adaptation and Compliance with Globalized Big Budget Cinema2. Hollywood Offshores to British Shores: Warner Bros’ Leavesden Studios Rides the Rise of the Creative Economy3. Training Creative Wizardry: How British Filmmaking Education Attracts Supply Chain Cinema4. Greasing the Wheels of Transnational Media Production: The United Arab Emirates’ Post-Oil Vision for Education5. Production Migrates to the Migrants: Precarious Film Labour in the UAE’s Free ZonesConclusionBibliographyIndex

Supply Chain Cinema is a critical reconceptualization of blockbuster film production and a scathing indictment of the ways in which higher education and skills training schemes have become complicit in producing a workforce amendable to demands of global capital. This is essential reading and a cautionary tale that troubles how governments and universities are responding to the creative economy.