“Invisible Work” in the Indian Media Industries

Abstract

Media production is a practice that draws on the creative skills of many different kinds of professionals including those who belong to the margins.This world of "invisible workers" includes stunt artists, body doubles, dancers, junior artists, makeup artists, lower-end technicians, and spot boys.The lives of these workers remain largely peripheral to the hype and spectacle generated by media industries.In deeply hierarchical societies like India, production practices tend to reinforce the existing social and class hierarchies, but on a much bigger scale.When industry practice is analyzed, these people often appear as statistical information sets.The article makes a strong case for detailed ethnographies of such working practices as a methodological intervention within media industries scholarship.

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