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Staging atmosphere: collective emotional labour on the film set
journal contribution
posted on 2018-11-08, 13:34 authored by Allan WatsonAllan Watson, Jenna Ward, James FairDespite a significant multi-disciplinary body of work on emotional labour, its application to geographical debates regarding space remains thin, and the role of emotional labour in the interrelations that produce space is poorly understood. In contrast, a substantial literature has developed in social and cultural geography concerned with ‘affective atmospheres’, understood as the relational and collective nature of affects. Within this literature, consideration has been given to the ways in which atmospheres might be staged to affect people’s moods for a variety of artistic and commercial reasons. Placing the concepts of emotional labour and atmosphere into dialogue, this paper offers a relational account of the film-set as a space in which directors, cast and crew engage in performances of individual and collective emotional labour in order to stage particular atmospheres. Drawing on primary qualitative data, we present the on-set work of film directors as attending to three relational projects; comportment, corpsing and conflict. In so doing, this paper offers a new understanding of the staging of atmosphere through performances of collective emotional labour. Such a perspective goes beyond the material to consider the emotional qualities of space and brings agency and intentionally to the fore in accounts of atmosphere.
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Social and Cultural GeographyVolume
22Issue
1Pages
76 - 96Citation
WATSON, A., WARD, J. and FAIR, J., 2021. Staging atmosphere: collective emotional labour on the film set. Social and Cultural Geography, 22 (1), pp.76-96.Publisher
© Taylor & Francis (Routledge)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social and Cultural Geography on 29 November 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14649365.2018.1551563.Acceptance date
2018-11-02Publication date
2018-11-29Copyright date
2018ISSN
1464-9365eISSN
1470-1197Publisher version
Language
- en