Moving images: world cities, connections and projects in Sydney's TV production industry

摘要

World city research concerned with connectivity has tended to focus on advanced producer service firms and on selected North American and European cities; the prevailing methodology has been quantitative. In this article I answer the call to 'go beyond counting' by bringing together a project-based enquiry - on a TV mini-series Mary Bryant - with a more conventional assessment of network connectivity. The inclusion of a practice-centred approach to this case study adds the performative data to the network, highlighting the actions and processes of those involved in maintaining the city networks. Furthermore, I demonstrate how this method of analysis is more suited to the study of project-based cultural industries and highlight the role of Sydney in the global television industry - a city hitherto under-explored in world city literature.