Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405163410 ISBN 13: 9781405163415

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

Media Industries: History, Theory and Method is among the first texts to explore the evolving field of media industry studies and offer an innovative blueprint for future study and analysis. capitalizes on the current social and cultural environment of unprecedented technical change, convergence, and globalization across a range of textual, institutional and theoretical perspectives brings together newly commissioned essays by leading scholars in film, media, communications and cultural studies includes case studies of film, television and digital media to vividly illustrate the dynamic transformations taking place across national, regional and international contexts

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"We have Holt and Perren's superb book to help us move forward. Media Industries will be of great interest to students and scholars considering an industrial turn in their research. The book can be successfully integrated into existing undergraduate and graduate film and television classes. It can also be taught as the centerpiece of a course we will hopefully see cropping up more and more: media industry studies."( Television & New Media , March 2010)

Synopsis:

"Media Industries: History, Theory and Method" explores the evolving field of media industry studies and offers an innovative blueprint for future study and analysis. Capitalizing on the current social and cultural environment of unprecedented technical change, convergence, and globalization, the book presents a well-timed arrival for cross-disciplinary conversations about the current state of media industries from a range of textual, institutional and theoretical perspectives. Comprised of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars in film, media, communications and cultural studies, "Media Industries" presents a unique road map of critical thinking and historical analysis. Case studies of film, television and digital media ground the discussions and vividly illustrate the dynamic transformations taking place across national, regional and international contexts.Along with charting the historical trajectory of the media industries, the book enlivens the larger theoretical, practical and methodological contexts that challenge all media stake-holders - from industry analysts and creatives to scholars, students and lay 'end users'.

The collection also carves out new territory for future studies of the media industries and will serve as a valuable resource and pedagogical tool for those interested in understanding and re-assessing our rapidly transforming media landscape.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1405163410
• ISBN 13: 9781405163415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Holt Jennifer, Perren Alisa