What television viewers around the world watch often depends less on popularity or government policies than on the personal relationships between buyers and sellers in the international programme market. A few thousand acquisitions and distribution professionals decide what programmes the earth's inhabitants can watch, and who can watch them. This book provides an inside look at the cultural assumptions and business practices of these television merchants. It argues that the market in television programs responds principally to institutional needs, rather than to the wishes of the viewing...
What television viewers around the world watch often depends less on popularity or government policies than on the personal relationships between buye...
-Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses--including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the small screen--Havens complicates discussions of racial representation and exposes possibilities for more expansive representations of blackness while recognizing the limitations of the...
-Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on t...
This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe. This is a region where television's transformation has been especially spectacular, shifting from a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and heavily filtered Western programming to a deregulated, multi-platform, transnational system delivering predominantly American and Western European entertainment programming. Consequently, the nations of Eastern Europe provide opportunities to examine the complex interactions among economic and funding systems, regulatory...
This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe. This is a region where television's transf...
An engaging and accessible introduction to the field, Understanding Media Industries helps students develop deeper and more critical knowledge of industries. This book provides students with a thorough discussion of how media industries work, why they work as they do, and the broader theoretical and practical implications of media industry structure and function. The authors' unique Industrialization of Culture Framework organizes the book and helps students to consider media industries in different nations and historical periods.
An engaging and accessible introduction to the field, Understanding Media Industries helps students develop deeper and more critical knowledg...
