Review: Television’s Spatial Capital: Location, Relocation, Dislocation, by Myles McNutt

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Book Review| September 01 2022 Review: Television’s Spatial Capital: Location, Relocation, Dislocation, by Myles McNutt Television’s Spatial Capital: Location, Relocation, Dislocation by Myles McNutt Dana Alston Dana Alston DANA ALSTON is a PhD student in film studies at the University of Iowa. His research currently focuses on adaptation and authorship across film, television, and new media. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Myles McNutt, Television’s Spatial Capital: Location, Relocation, Dislocation. New York: Routledge, 2021. $160.00 cloth. 200 pages. Film Quarterly (2022) 76 (1): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.109 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Dana Alston; Review: Television’s Spatial Capital: Location, Relocation, Dislocation, by Myles McNutt. Film Quarterly 1 September 2022; 76 (1): 109–111. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.109 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA Myles McNutt, Television’s Spatial Capital: Location, Relocation, Dislocation. New York: Routledge, 2021. $160.00 cloth. 200 pages. AMC’s Breaking Bad (2008–13), one of the most critically lauded TV shows of the last decade, built much of its neo-Western aesthetic and political relevance upon its Albuquerque setting. The orange blood-soaked deserts and the proximity to cartel wars gave its viewers a heightened sense of the American Southwest. But behind the scenes, the show came close to looking, sounding, and feeling different: the original plan was for the series to take place in Riverside, California, before it moved to Albuquerque for tax purposes. To consider the choice Breaking Bad’s producers made (and its result) is to consider the economic and political pressures within a changing American media-production landscape in which modes of production, distribution, and consumption are in constant flux. The adage “location, location, location” matters more than ever... You do not currently have access to this content.