Envisioning media power : on capital and geographies of television / Brett Christophers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christophers, Brett, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Economic aspects.

Television broadcasting.

Mass media--Economic aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (483 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Envisioning Media Power develops an original geographical perspective on the nature and exercise of power in the international television economy, focusing on the UK and New Zealand markets, and on their respective relationships with the U.S. market and its globally-influential media corporations. In illuminating the fabric of television's international space economy, the book argues that power, knowledge and geography are inseparable not only from one another, but from the process of accumulation of media capital.

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Reflections on Method; I KNOWING THE TELEVISION ECONOMY; 1 Enframing Creativity; 2 Television's Economy and the Power of the Geographical Imagination; 3 Knowledge Travels; Conclusion to Part I; II CAPITALIZING AND CIRCULATING POWER; 4 Power, Scarcity, and a "Spatial Fix"; 5 Television's Local Power Relations; 6 Power and Program Pricing in International Markets; 7 Circuits of Capital; 8 Mirrors, Meters, and Media Power; Conclusion to Part II; III FROM SPACE TO PLACE; 9 Geopolitics

10 Putting Television in its Place11 The Political Economy of Place in Programming; Conclusion to Part III; Coda: Into the Home of Media Power; Closing Remarks; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32213-9

1-282-49414-7

9786612494147

0-7391-3310-1

OCLC:

467922632