The Routledge companion to media industries / edited by Paul McDonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDonald, Paul, 1963- editor.

Series:

Routledge media and cultural studies companions.

Routledge handbooks

Routledge media and cultural studies companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

"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. Media industries occupy a central place in modern societies, producing, circulating and presenting the multitude of cultural forms and experiences we encounter in our daily lives. The chapters in this volume begin by outlining key conceptual and critical perspectives while also presenting original interventions to prompt new lines of inquiry. Other chapters then examine the impacts of digitalization on the media industries, intersections formed between industries or across geographic territories, and the practices of doing media industries research and teaching. General ideas and arguments are illustrated through specific examples and case studies drawn from a range of media sectors, including advertising, publishing, comics, news, music, film, television, branded entertainment, live cinema experiences, social media, and music video. Making a vital and significant contribution to media research, this volume is essential reading for students and academics seeking to understand and evaluate the work of the media industries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Assembling production studies : formative interventions in Britain and Europe / Graham Murdock

Origins of research into media industries conducted in the US / Janet Wasko

Meeting the challenges of media and marketing convergence : revising critical political economy approaches / Jonathan Hardy

Why should we care about media policy? Critical directions in media policy research / Maria Michalis

Economic perspectives on the characteristics and operation of media industries / Gillian Doyle

The state of media management research / Ulrike Rohn

Critical and cultural? Production studies as situated storytelling / Philip Drake

Locating and localizing media industry studies : the case of Greece / Georgia Aitaki, Lydia Papadimitriou and Yannis Tzioumakis

Industrial media studies : considering infrastructures for audience manufacture / Lee Mcguigan

The infrastructural turn in media and internet research / David Hesmondhalgh

Informality and indeterminacy in media industries research / Ramon Lobato

An industry of its own? Approaching the American comic book industry / Gregory Steirer and Alisa Perren

Approaching race in media industries research / Anamik Saha

Methodological approaches to women's work in Hollywood / Courtney Brannon Donoghue

Global configurations : re-spatializing labor in contemporary film and television production / Kevin Sanson

Producing for small audiences : smallness and peripherality in the global media industries / Petr Szczepanik

Currents of change : the unstoppable momentum of the Chinese media industrial complex / Michael Keane

Bricks, mortar and media : understanding the media industries through their buildings / EliAbeth Evans

Authorship and agency in the media industries / Eva Novrup Redvall

The online television industry : fragmentation, consolidation and power / Catherine Johnson

Children and the media industries : an overlooked but very special "television" audience / Anna Potter and Jeanette Steemers

Game-changer or a new shape to familiar dynamics? Netflix and the American indie film sector / Geoff King

User as asset, music as liability : The moral economy of the "value gap" in a platform musical economy / Andrew Leyshon and Allan Watson

The digital news industry : the intertwining digital commodities of audiences and news / Henrik Bødker

The dynamics of the book publishing industry / Angus Phillips

Social media industries and the rise of the platform / Pieter Verdegem

When East Asian media industries are faced with digitalization : transformation and survival strategies / Anthony Fung and Georgia Chik

Creating that "local connect" : The dubbing of Hollywood into Hindi / Tejaswini Ganti

The Hollywood-Chinawood relationship : continuities and changes / Wendy Su

TV formats : Transnationalizing television production and distribution / Andrea Esser

From idents to influencers : the promotional screen industries / Paul Grainge

Branded entertainment : a critical review / Katharina Stolley, Finola Kerrigan and Cagri Yalkin

Gatekeepers of culture in the music video supply chain / Emily Caston

The immersive cinema experience economy : the UK film industry's third sector / Sarah Atkinson and Helen Kennedy

Transmediality as an industrial form / Matthew Freeman

Sports rights : global content, national markets and regulatory issues / Paul Smith

Writing film industry history / Andrew Spicer

Writing the airwaves : recent trends in histories of US broadcasting / Jennifer Porst and Deborah L. Jaramillo

Policy studies and the case for plurality / Jennifer Holt and Steven Secular

Media economics and management as optimization research : towards a shared methodology / M. Bjørn Von Rimscha

Backstage observations : studying media producers / Anna Zoellner

Breaking into Hollywood : strategies for interviewing media producers / David Craig

Harnessing the life history method to study the media industries / Roei Davidson and Oren Meyers

Interfacing with industry / Stuart Cunningham

Media industries and audiences : an analytic dialogue / Annette Hill

Ethics in media industries research / Patrick Vonderau

Appreciating the costs and benefits of media market research in the digital era / Justin Wyatt

Numbers and qualitative media industries research / Jade Miller

Teaching media industries through experiential learning : pathways to engagement and understanding / Erin Copple Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 2, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to media industries

ISBN:

9780429275340

042927534X

9781000451818

100045181X

9781000451856

1000451852

OCLC:

1249716081

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