{"product_id":"production-values-9781966193234","title":"Production Values","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): E. V. Hayes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Creative Nudge Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Creative Nudge Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Satire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Hollywood studio does a race swap so insane, it unites the entire internet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePinnacle Pictures casts a Black actor as Adolf Hitler. Not for art. Not for progress. But because a cutthroat executive named Victoria Martinez needs to spite a rival, game the Academy's new diversity requirements, and generate the kind of controversy that no marketing budget can buy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt works. Immediately and spectacularly. The right calls it woke. The left calls it not diverse enough. Conspiracy theorists claim it's historically accurate. TikTok loses its mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomewhere inside the chaos, a classically trained Nigerian British actor named James Wright is giving the performance of a lifetime to an audience that can't stop arguing long enough to watch it. Director Aaron Weisman, a Jewish filmmaker with a personal connection to the Holocaust, fights to protect the film's integrity while Victoria and her marketing team treat outrage like a natural resource to be strip-mined. Kennedy Oswald, the A-list actress playing Eva Braun, is busy rebranding historical tragedy as a feminist empowerment moment for her Instagram. And Andr� Reynolds, the head of marketing, has discovered that polarization is the only algorithm that never stops paying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe film is called \u003cem\u003eGravity\u003c\/em\u003e. Against every cynical odd, it might actually be good. That's the worst possible outcome for almost everyone involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduction Values \u003c\/strong\u003eis a darkly funny satire about the machine that turns art into content, controversy into currency, and sincerity into a liability. Born from our collective obsession with the art and machinery of Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who loved \u003cem\u003eErasure, Thank\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eYou for Smoking\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYellowface\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creative Nudge Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":68018036342935,"sku":"9781966193234","price":1966.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781966193234.webp?v=1791413007","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/production-values-9781966193234","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}