The Routledge Companion to Media Industries

Herausgeber: Mcdonald, Paul

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together 49 chapters from leading experts in media industries research, this major collection offers an authoritative overview of the current state of scholarship while setting out proposals for expanding, re-thinking and innovating the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 602
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1152g
• ISBN-13: 9780367225261
• ISBN-10: 0367225263
• Artikelnr.: 62221406

Autorenporträt

Paul McDonald is Professor of Media Industries at King's College London. He recently co-edited Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines (2021 with Courtney Brannon Donoghue and Timothy Havens). Alongside authoring or editing major works in the field, he's contributed to advancing critical studies of media industries by launching the Media Industries conferences, being a founding member of the Editorial Collective for the journal Media Industries, co-editing (with Michael Curtin) the International Screen Industries book series from the British Film Institute, and establishing specialized media industries networks within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and the European Network of Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). Before entering academia, he worked in various areas of the media industries, with periods spent as an actor, media analyst, and in aspects of animated film production, art book publishing, film exhibition, and studio photography.

Inhaltsangabe

Media, industries, research: problematizing the field PART I Perspectives:
conceptual and critical directions 1. Assembling production studies:
formative interventions in Britain and Europe 2. Origins of research into
media industries conducted in the United States 3. Meeting the challenges
of media and marketing convergence: revising critical political economy
approaches 4. Why should we care about media policy? Critical directions in
media policy research 5. Economic perspectives on the characteristics and
operation of media industries 6. The state of media management research 7.
Critical and cultural? Production studies as situated storytelling 8.
Locating and localizing media industry studies: the case of Greece PART II
Interventions: rethinking the field 9. Industrial media studies:
considering infrastructures for audience manufacture 10. The
infrastructural turn in media and internet research 11. Informality and
indeterminacy in media industries research 12. An industry of its own?
Approaching the American comic book industry 13. Approaching race in media
industries research 14. Methodological approaches to women's work in
Hollywood 15. Global configurations: re-spatializing labor in contemporary
film and television production 16. Producing for small audiences: smallness
and peripherality in the global media industries 17. Currents of change:
the unstoppable momentum of the Chinese media industrial complex 18.
Bricks, mortar and media: understanding the media industries through their
buildings 19. Authorship and agency in the media industries PART III
Transformations: digitalization and industry change 20. The online
television industry: fragmentation, consolidation, and power 21. Children
and the media industries: an overlooked but very special "television"
audience 22. Game-changer or a new shape to familiar dynamics? Netflix and
the American indie film sector 23. User as asset, music as liability: the
moral economy of the "value gap" in a platform musical economy 24. The
digital news industry: the intertwining digital commodities of audiences
and news 25. The dynamics of the book publishing industry 26. Social media
industries and the rise of the platform 27. When East Asian media
industries are faced with digitalization: transformation and survival
strategies PART IV Intersections: transnational exchanges and industry
traversings 28. Creating that "local connect": the dubbing of Hollywood
into Hindi 29. The Hollywood-Chinawood relationship: continuities and
changes 30. TV formats: transnationalizing television production and
distribution 31. From idents to influencers: the promotional screen
industries 32. Branded entertainment: a critical review 33. Gatekeepers of
culture in the music video supply chain 34. The immersive cinema experience
economy: the UK film industry's third sector 35. Transmediality as an
industrial form 36. Sports rights: global content, national markets, and
regulatory issues PART V Practices: doing media industries research and
pedagogy 37. Writing film industry history 38. Writing the airwaves: recent
trends in histories of US broadcasting 39. Policy studies and the case for
plurality 40. Media economics and management as optimization research:
toward a shared methodology 41. Backstage observations: studying media
producers 42. Breaking into Hollywood: strategies for interviewing media
producers 43. Harnessing the life history method to study the media
industries 44. Interfacing with industry 45. Media industries and
audiences: an analytic dialogue 46. Ethics in media industries research 47.
Appreciating the costs and benefits of media market research in the digital
era 48. Numbers and qualitative media industries research 49. Teaching
media industries through experiential learning: pathways to engagement and
understanding