Mark Wheeler's "Hollywood Politics and Society" has a chapter on runaway
productions. He refers to the campaign against Anthony Minghella's Cold
Mountain, whose North Carolina was recreated in Rumania. The FTAC (Film and
Television Action Commitee)-campaign was aimed at so called 'economic
runaways', who relocate for reasons of costs. But it think runaway
productions are interesting in terms of film theory and philosphy as well.
Films become culturally unspecific. The phenomenon is pretty much the same
as the "Europudding" cinema, European co-productions build upon the lowest
common denominator to please the audiences of all the participating nations.
Herbert
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