“To Be as Real as Possible”: The Actor-Network of Status YO! and the Production of HipHop Authenticity

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Author(s): Markus Spöhrer (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 18
Source title: Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Markus Spöhrer (University of Konstanz, Germany)and Beate Ochsner (University of Konstanz, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0616-4.ch010

Keywords: Digital Communications / Digital Media / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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In this chapter an effort is made to describe the film production network of the German “HipHop film” Status YO! (Till Hastreiter, 2004) and the related attribution and production of “authenticity”. However, film production will neither be considered a process in which human entities are the sole manufacturers of a stable cultural artifact. Nor will film production be reduced to the classical triad of preproduction, shooting and postproduction. Rather, from an ANT perspective, the production of a film is a continuous process of translation, inscriptions and negotiations that exceed postproduction. Additionally, a multitude of heterogeneous actors are involved in this processual production of the film and authenticity respectively, such as academic writing, audience responses, film critical reception, historical and cultural discourses, and also other films.

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