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Wayne State University Press New Zealand Filmmakers
Book SynopsisContains twenty in-depth studies of prominent New Zealand directors, producers, actors, and cinematographers. This book displays the diversity of filmmaking in New Zealand and highlights the specific industrial, aesthetic, and cultural concerns that have created a film culture of international significance.
£28.46
University of Arizona Press The Sound of Exclusion
£23.16
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry
Book SynopsisThe Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry is a collection of essays by leading scholars that examines the state of the U.S. film industry, from the l980s to present day.Trade Review"Its purpose is to explain the Hollywood 'industry' with industrial-strength clarity. Mission accomplished." (CHOICE)Table of ContentsAbout the Contributors. Figures and Tables. Preface. Introduction. Part I: The Structure of the Industry. 1. The Studio System and Conglomerate Hollywood. Tom Schatz. 2. Finance and Production: Creating the Film Commodity. Janet Wasko. 3. Distribution and Marketing in Contemporary Hollywood. Philip Drake. 4. Theatrical Exhibition: Accelerated Cinema. Charles Acland. 5. Ancillary Markets – Television: From Challenge to Safe Haven. Eileen R. Meehan. 6. Ancillary Markets -- Video and DVD: Hollywood Retools. Frederick Wasser. 7. Ancillary Markets -- Video Games: Promises and Challenges of an Emerging Industry. Randy Nichols. 8. Ancillary Markets – Recorded Music: Charting the Rise and Fall of the Soundtrack. Jeff Smith. Part II: Industry Dynamics. 9. Hollywood Labor Relations: The Effects of Media Concentration on the Film and Television Workforce. Susan Christopherson. 10. The Star System: Producing Hollywood Stardom in the Post-Studio Era. Paul McDonald. 11. Hollywood and the State: The American Film Industry Cartel in the Age of Globalization. Manjunath Pendakur. 12. Hollywood and Intellectual Property. Ronald V. Bettig. Part III: International Territories. 13. Hollywood and the World: Export or Die. John Trumpbour. 14. Britain: Hollywood UK. Paul McDonald. 15. France: A Story of Love and Hate. Joel Augros. 16. Germany: A Very Special Relationship. Peter Kramer. 17. Italy: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Market. Krishna P. Jayakar and David Waterman. 18. Latin America: How Mexico and Argentina Cope and Cooperate with the Behemoth of the North. Tamara L. Falicov. 19. East Asia: For Better of Worse. John A. Lent. 20. India: Hollywood’s Domination, Extinction and Re-animation (with thanks to Jurassic Park). Nitin Govil. 21. Australia and New Zealand: Expats in Hollywood and Hollywood South. David Newman. Index
£89.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry
Book SynopsisThe Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry is a collection of essays by leading scholars that examines the state of the U.S. film industry, from the l980s to present day.Trade Review“Covers all levels of motion pictures from a business perspective … .This book examines the industry in contemporary marketing terms, and each essay clearly explains another aspect of American film as a business. THE CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY is a truly indispensable book, and a pioneering effort in understanding cinema’s business aspects. It’s thorough study of the financial side of motion pictures, complete with full lists of sources after each insightful essay, is fascinating, enlightening, and instructive.” (RogueCinema.com, December 2008)Table of ContentsList of Figures viii List of Tables xii Acknowledgments xiii Notes on Contributors xiv Introduction: The New Contours of the Hollywood Film Industry 1Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko Part I The Structure Of The Industry 11 1 The Studio System and Conglomerate Hollywood 13Tom Schatz 2 Financing and Production: Creating the Hollywood Film Commodity 43Janet Wasko 3 Distribution and Marketing in Contemporary Hollywood 63Philip Drake 4 Theatrical Exhibition: Accelerated Cinema 83Charles Acland 5 Ancillary Markets – Television: From Challenge to Safe Haven 106Eileen R. Meehan 6 Ancillary Markets – Video and DVD: Hollywood Retools 120Frederick Wasser 7 Ancillary Markets – Video Games: Promises and Challenges of an Emerging Industry 132Randy Nichols 8 Ancillary Markets – Recorded Music: Charting the Rise and Fall of the Soundtrack Album 143Jeff Smith Part II Industry Dynamics 153 9 Labor: The Effects of Media Concentration on the Film and Television Workforce 155Susan Christopherson 10 The Star System: The Production of Hollywood Stardom in the Post-Studio Era 167Paul McDonald 11 Hollywood and the State: The American Film Industry Cartel in the Age of Globalization 182Manjunath Pendakur 12 Hollywood and Intellectual Property 195Ronald V. Bettig Part III International Territories 207 13 Hollywood and the World: Export or Die 209John Trumpbour 14 Britain: Hollywood, UK 220Paul McDonald 15 France: A Story of Love and Hate – French and American Cinema in the French Audiovisual Markets 232Joel Augros 16 Germany: Hollywood and the Germans – A Very Special Relationship 240Peter Krämer 17 Italy: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Market 251Krishna P. Jayakar and David Waterman 18 Latin America: How Mexico and Argentina Cope and Cooperate with the Behemoth of the North 264Tamara L. Falicov 19 East Asia: For Better or Worse 277John A. Lent 20 India: Hollywood’s Domination, Extinction, and Re-animation (with thanks to Jurassic Park) 285Nitin Govil 21 Australia and New Zealand: Expats in Hollywood and Hollywood South 295David Newman Index 307
£31.30
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Television in the Multichannel Age
Book SynopsisTelevision in the Multichannel Age is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to the history of multichannel television in all its forms from cable to direct-to-home satellite and beyond. Chapter by chapter, the book traces the evolution of cable television from its pre-historical origins in the late 1940s to the communications satellites and DBS distribution systems of the modern digital age, both in the U.S. and internationally. Guides the reader through the history of multichannel television from its origins in the 40s to the modern age Discusses factors that influence today's television landscape including government policy-making, emerging technologies, and the public's programming tastes Concentrates on domestic multichannel technologies while considering global impacts of these technologies Includes newly discovered oral history transcripts, personal interviews, goTrade Review"Megan Mullen tells the story of American cable television the way it should be told: small-town start-ups, daring entrepreneurs, rising media moguls, unexpected outcomes of media regulation, new communication technologies, proliferation of viewing choices, and ever-growing audiences. Television in the Multichannel Age is top-notch scholarship that is also and immensely useful reading for students in the classroom." --Jim Schwoch, Northwestern University “The author … has done a good job of condensing sixty years of cable history into a tight, well-organized summary. An excellent overview of the industry.” Television Quarterly “Mullen writes in an accessible style, tackles both technical and business history, and adds a dash of colorful business people. She also wisely includes international developments as a counterpoint to this very American story. Recommended.” Choice "Mullen writes in an accessible style, tackles both technical and business history, and adds a dash of colorful business people. She also wisely includes international developments as a counterpoint to this very American story." R.W. Morrrow, Morgan State University Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Cable Pre-history and the Community Antenna Pioneers: before 1960. 3. Regulatory Beginnings: 1960-7. 4. "Blue Sky": 1968-74. 5. Cable Meets Satellite: 1975-80. 6. The Satellite Years: 1980-92. 7. Multichannel Television's Mature Years: 1993-Present. 8. The View from 2007: The Future of Multichannel Television. Bibliography. Index.
£80.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Live from the Underground A History of College
Book SynopsisIn this first history of US college radio, Katherine Rye Jewell reveals that these eclectic stations in major cities and college towns across the United States owed their collective cultural power to the politics of higher education as much as they did to upstart bohemian music scenes coast to coast.Trade ReviewJewell . . . chronicles the rise, fall, and legacy of college radio in this sprawling and richly detailed account. . . . [Live from the Undeground] offers both an animated homage to college radio as a microcosm of American culture and reassurance for readers that the medium isn't dead. It's a fascinating deep dive."—Publishers Weekly An interesting and insightful look at how this nationwide phenomenon has sculpted American culture. . . . Live from the Underground teaches us the importance of listening to college broadcasters while supporting their experimental stations as sites of free speech and free expression critical to our Democracy."—Midwest Book Review
£78.40
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Live from the Underground A History of College
Book SynopsisIn this first history of US college radio, Katherine Rye Jewell reveals that these eclectic stations in major cities and college towns across the United States owed their collective cultural power to the politics of higher education as much as they did to upstart bohemian music scenes coast to coast.Trade ReviewJewell . . . chronicles the rise, fall, and legacy of college radio in this sprawling and richly detailed account. . . . [Live from the Undeground] offers both an animated homage to college radio as a microcosm of American culture and reassurance for readers that the medium isn't dead. It's a fascinating deep dive."—Publishers Weekly An interesting and insightful look at how this nationwide phenomenon has sculpted American culture. . . . Live from the Underground teaches us the importance of listening to college broadcasters while supporting their experimental stations as sites of free speech and free expression critical to our Democracy."—Midwest Book Review
£23.96
University of Texas Press The Television Code
Book SynopsisRevisiting early debates about TV content and censorship from industry and government perspectives, this book recounts the development of the Television Code, the TV counterpart to the Hays Motion Picture Production Code.Trade Review[A] valuable resource for media scholars and graduate students. * Choice *Jaramillo has authored a work with applications across many disciplines, especially history, media law, and even political science. Her search for primary sources in both the development of the code and the short life of the [Television Broadcasters Association] is a valuable insight into the origins of U.S. television. * Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media *[The Television Code] is a strong intellectual contribution to debates about what television is and who it serves which will no doubt become a staple in reading lists of television history and regulation...The Television Code is an engaging, well-written, and thought-provoking study on the key role played by regulation in the early negotiations about television’s identity. * Critical Studies in Television *An essential account of a transitional period in television’s rise, The Television Code establishes the [National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters'] role in crafting the industry’s master narratives and would interest scholars and students of US broadcast history, media policy, and censorship... Jaramillo’s careful attention to the voices of the various players involved in the Code further enriches the complicated history of commercial broadcasting and provides a model for rigorous archival research. * Television & New Media *[The Television Code] is a well-researched, articulate, and sound book that would contribute toward thinking of popular culture studies in ways that intersect with overlooked subfields such as media policy, and, perhaps, political sociology. This book effectively maps out the road to the Television Code, along with the detours and back roads that led to its ultimate implementation. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Table of Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Television Code and the Trade Association 1. Regulatory Precedents before Television: The Government and the NAB Experiment with Radio 2. Distinguishing Television from Radio via the Trade Association: The Rise and Fall of the Television Broadcasters Association 3. The Industry Talks about a Television Code: Discourses of Decency, Self-Regulation, and Medium Specificity 4. The Television Audience Speaks Out: Viewer Complaints and the Demand for Government Intervention 5. The Federal Communications Commission: Impotent Bureaucrats, Underhanded Censors, or Exasperated Intermediaries? 6. Senator William Benton Challenges the Commercial Television Paradigm Conclusion: After the Code Appendix A. The Television Code: Section on “Acceptability of Program Material” Appendix B. The Television Code: Section on “Decency and Decorum in Production” Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of Texas Press Television Rewired
Book SynopsisFrom Twin Peaks (including the 2017 return) to Girls, a veteran critic and scholar draws on decades of industry expertise and exclusive interviews with renowned creators to examine the rise of art television.Trade ReviewNochimson's book is well worth reading not only for its insights but for the dialogue and reflection it opens up among readers. * Lost in the Movies *Television Rewired is an essential contribution to the still-crystallizing critical definition of auteur television…from the unique perspective of a critic who has engaged with the medium in profound ways. * 25 Years Later *This book details the creative process of each of the series [that developed the concept of the television auteur], based on interviews and detailed research by the author…Recommended. * CHOICE *A lively and fascinating book...Throughout Nochimson is thoroughly consumed by the question of what constitutes television art, and what plausibly counts as a defense of its achievements; her prose is utterly compelling in its gentle unfolding of such complex and challenging questions. * New Review of Film and Television Studies *[Nochimson provides] solid, but accessible, insights into the process of auteur television expression....After reading Television Rewired, I learned a new vocabulary for television viewing. The book is not a judgment of what is good or bad. Nochimson expanded my appreciation for television by explaining exactly what it is I am watching. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Table of Contents Introduction: The David Effect The Founding Titans: Men without Formula Chapter 1. David Lynch, Twin Peaks Chapter 2. David Chase, The Sopranos Chapter 3. David Simon, The Wire The Legacy: New Options, New Questions, Retooled Formulas Chapter 4. David Simon and Eric Overmyer, Treme Chapter 5. Matt Weiner, Mad Men Chapter 6. Lena Dunham, Girls Chapter 7. Backlash! Formula 2.0 Coda: The Return of David Lynch Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
New York University Press The Television Will Be Revolutionized Second
Book SynopsisTelevision, as both a technology and a tool for cultural storytelling, remains as important today as ever, but it has changed in fundamental ways. This edition addresses adjustments throughout the industry wrought by broadband delivered television such as Netflix, YouTube, and cross-platform initiatives like TV Everywhere.Trade ReviewIn thissecond edition, Lotz not only updates us on developments over the past seven years; she digs deeper and thinks harder about the revolutionary changes taking place in the television today. An outstanding contribution to television studies and an invaluable guide for students, scholars, and professionals. -- Michael Curtin,co-director, Media Industries ProjectTelevision is anything but dead, but we are now fully into the post-network era that Amanda D. Lotz projected when this book was first published. An incredibly prescient book, setting many of the terms through which television studies has understood these changes, the revised edition updates its account to reflect an age when Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon are now competing for Emmy and Peabody Awards, when television content is being funded through Kickstarter, and where web series are diversifying whose stories get told. -- Henry Jenkins,co-author of Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked CultureTable of ContentsContents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Understanding Television at the Beginning of the Post-Network Era 21 2 Television Outside the Box: The Technological Revolution of Television 53 3 Making Television: Changes in the Practices of Creating Television 95 4 Revolutionizing Distribution: Breaking Open the Network Bottleneck 131 5 The New Economics of Television 167 6 Recounting the Audience: Measurement in the Age of Broadband 207 7 Television Storytelling Possibilities at the Beginning of the PostNetwork Era: Five Cases 233 Conclusion: Still Watching Television 263 Notes 279 Selected Bibliography 307 Index 321 About the Author 331
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming
Book SynopsisAlong with its interrelated companion volume, The Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video, this book examines the next generation of TV-online video. It reviews the elements that lead to online platforms and video clouds and analyzes the software and hardware elements of content creation and interaction, and how these elements lead to different styles of video content.What are the models of this new content? What kind of cultural and societal acceleration can we expect? What are the societal implications of the next-generation media system? What problems are emerging? What kind of market power is emerging in media industries, around the world? And how can one deal with them? The author addresses these questions with facts and figures, ranging across technology, economics, communications studies, business, policy, and law. He reviews the regulatory options, and recommends a new approach for video media. Media professionals in academia, management, technology, policy and creative production will value the approachable yet thorough information presented in The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video.Trade Review'In this two-volume tour-de-force on video, Noam nails the multi-dimensional answers to what is consumed and how it is consumed. The passage of video through programmable devices invites unconstrained transformation.' -- - Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google'These books show how the world's most impactful medium for entertainment, information, education and marketing will evolve -- and why. No one is more qualified to project and describe the future of the media business, technology and regulation than Eli Noam. Numerous authors have chronicled the media industry's past and present, but this is the first description I’ve seen of where it is going and what it will look like in the future.' -- Bob Zitter, Media Technology Advisor and former HBO Chief Technology Officer'Professor Noam sees technical advances driving dramatic change in such areas as digital video infrastructures and services, particular business models, and the reshaping of the media industry, such as around the market power of cloud video services. These developments raise major social and economic issues for regulators, such as around greater concentration. Professor Noam's insights will enable students, media scholars, practitioners and the policy community to anticipate these transformations and shape policy and practice in ways that will better serve the increasingly diverse interests of the public but also the vitality of digital age media.' -- - Emeritus Professor William H. Dutton, University of Southern California, US and Oxford University, UK‘Changing media consumers’ behaviors, further advances in digital technologies and a dramatic health and economic crisis, combine to transform the media and telecommunications industries. Eli Noam’s new books present us with current, comprehensive,in-depth, analyses of unprecedented dimensions. The Columbia Professor offers essential present and future industry perspectives to readers, scholars, students, managers and policy makers.’ -- - Gerard Pogorel, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris, CNRS Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute I3, France‘The Internet, now 50 years old, was not built for video, but today video is most of what it carries. Professor Noam does it for us again with his two volumes about the content of streaming video, in the broadest context, as next-generation television.’ -- - Bob Metcalfe, Internet Pioneer, now UTAustin Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Impending Revolution in Video Technology and its Impact on Media Content and Regulation 2. The Three Generations of TV 3. The Dynamics of Content 4. New-Style Content 5. Market Power in Cloud Video 6. Societal Impacts 7. Regulating Online Video Content: Models and Issues 8. Regulating Online Video Infrastructure: Issues and Institutions 9. Dealing with the Market Power of Video 10, Observations and Conclusions Index
£130.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Technology, Business, and Economics of
Book SynopsisAlong with its interrelated companion volume, The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video, this book covers the next generation of TV-streaming online video, with details about its present and a broad perspective on the future. It reviews the new technical elements that are emerging, both in hardware and software, their long-term trend, and the implications, and discusses the emerging ''media cloud'' of video and infrastructure platforms, and the organizational form of such TV.What kind of companies? What kind of business models? What kind of industries? What kind of impact on existing media? And what kind of market power in media industries, around the world? The author addresses these questions with facts and figures, ranging across technology, economics, communications studies, business, policy, and law.Media professionals in academia, management, technology, policy and creative production will appreciate the non-jargony yet thorough exploration of streaming online video in The Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video.Trade Review‘This book is crucial reference material for any library or media economics collection. Highly recommended.’ -- N D Bowman, CHOICE‘In the not-too-distant future all television will stream from the cloud to many devices. Everyone who wants to benefit from this epiphany needs to take Eli Noam’s guidance. This particular vision of the future needs the most visionary person in the field and that is Professor Noam.’ -- Reed Hundt, Former FCC Chairman, US‘Eli Noam gets to the heart of the underlying causes of some of the most dramatic and important changes in our world. His focus on underlying the economics as well as the technology enriches our understanding and provides an excellent guide. This work is essential to anyone seeking a full understanding of the changes being wrought around us and how we might approach the critical policy and commercial questions that they raise.’ -- Ed Richards, Managing Partner/Founder, Flint Global Ltd and former CEO of Ofcom, the UK communications regulator‘In this two-volume tour-de-force on video, Noam nails the multi-dimensional answers to what is consumed and how it is consumed.’ -- Vint Cerf, A ‘Father of the Internet’ and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google‘The Internet, now 50 years old, was not built for video, but today video is most of what it carries. Professor Noam does it for us again with his two volumes about the content of streaming video, in the broadest context, as next-generation television.’ -- Bob Metcalfe, Internet Pioneer and Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas, US‘Professor Eli Noam, one of the world’s leading media economists, identifies key technical advances shaping media, policy and regulation for the digital age. His two volumes are must reading for anyone seriously interested in the future of the media—its business models, creative content, industry structure, and implications for policy and regulation.’ -- William H. Dutton, Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California, USA, and Oxford Martin Fellow and Founding Director, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK‘Changing media consumers behaviors, further advances in digital technologies and a dramatic health and economic crisis, combine to transform the media and telecommunications industries. Eli Noam’s new books present us with current, comprehensive,in-depth, analyses of unprecedented dimensions. The Columbia Professor offers its readers, scholars, students, managers, policy makers, essential present and future industry perspectives.’ -- Gerard Pogorel, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris, CNRS Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute I3, France‘These books show how the world’s most impactful medium for entertainment, information, education and marketing will evolve—and why. No one is more qualified to project and describe the future of the media business, technology and regulation than Eli Noam. Numerous authors have chronicled the media industry’s past and present, but this is the first description I’ve seen of where it is going and what it will look like in the future.’ -- Bob Zitter, Former HBO Chief Technology OfficerTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Impending Media Revolution in Video Technology and its Impacts on Today’s and Tomorrow’s Media Industries 2. The Past Generations of TV Technology 3. Technology Innovation: Hardware 4. Infrastructure Platforms and Data Operations 5. Video Platforms 6. Market Power in Cloud Video 7. Business Models for Video Clouds 8. Interoperability and Integration Among Clouds and Other Providers 9. The Impact of Next-Generation Video on Traditional Media Companies and Industries 10. Observations and Conclusions Index
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Historic England London's West End Cinemas
Book SynopsisThe history of London’s West End cinemas dates back more than one hundred years. This book details all of them, in chronological order, totalling well over one hundred. The best of the West End’s cinemas were outfitted to a very high standard to match their role as showcases for new films, hosting press shows and premieres, as well as a being a magnet for film enthusiasts anxious to see films on exclusive premiere runs. Even now, when films are available everywhere at the same time, the West End’s cinemas are a vibrant attraction to visitors from all over the world as well as for Londoners having a night on the town. The oldest survivor is the Cineworld Haymarket, dating back to 1928 as a cinema. Other famous cinemas with a long history include the landmark Odeon Leicester Square and nearby Odeon West End as well as the Curzons in Mayfair and Soho, both replacing earlier picture houses. Many cinemas survive in other uses, such as the Rialto as a casino and the New Victoria as the Apollo Victoria live theatre. But here also are dozen of long vanished cinemas, some lasting only a few years and forgotten, others like the original Empire (1928 to 1961) – the largest cinema ever built in the West End – still living on in fond memory. There are interior views as well as exteriors of most of the cinemas, and over 50 illustrations are in full colour. This is a valuable and comprehensive addition to the history of the West End that will appeal to cinema enthusiasts as well as social historians and students of London and of architecture and design. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Map – Victoria area Map – Inner West End Map – Outer West End The Cinemas [in chronological order] Some Club Cinemas Theatres as Cinemas Cinema Name Index
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Rutgers University Press Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in
Book SynopsisAlthough the "decline" of network television in the face of cable programming was an institutional crisis of television history, John Caldwell's classic volume Televisuality reveals that this decline spawned a flurry of new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Television in the 1980s hyped an extensive array of exhibitionist practices to raise the prime-time marquee above the multi-channel flow. Televisuality demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series (Northern Exposure) and "loss-leader" event-status programming (War and Remembrance) to lower "trash" and "tabloid" forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV). Caldwell shows how "import-auteurs" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time as videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. By drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, and by tying technologies to aesthetics and ideology, Televisuality is a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of "high theory."Trade Review“An original and outstanding contribution to television scholarship…. Illuminating both in its examination of television at a specific historical moment and in challenging common academic conceptions about the medium for their failure to engage with the historical changes in television production.— Allan D. Campbell, Velvet Light Trap “Engrossing and thought-provoking…. Televisuality points to a hole in television studies and highlights an interdisciplinary approach-combining the economic with the aesthetic and ideological-that could help to plug it.”— Matthew P. McAllister, Film Quarterly “With its combined attention to television aesthetic, economic, and technological aspects, it [is] a highly innovative book that question[s] a great deal of conventional wisdom.”— European Journal of Media Studies “This may be the most sophisticated study of the American television medium, industry, and aesthetic to date. Caldwell ranges through industry bumf and the academic bibliography to rescue the medium from theoretical simplifications. [An] insightful and allusive text that leaves virtually no familiar generalization unchallenged.”— Choice, Outstanding Academic Title “Televisuality is a theoretical term coined by John Caldwell in the mid-1990s to characterize a change in the look and practice of television programming. This change began around 1980 and continues to the present day. Describing and discussing television through the lens of televisuality requires one to consider television as a mode of mass communication reliant on popularity with viewers and created in an industrial context whose labor relations affect how shows are produced. Overall, the main identifying feature of ‘the televisual’ is ‘an excess of style.’ Thus, programs produced from the 1980s onward are likely to break with traditional ‘invisible’ production styles and to innovate in ways that call the viewer's attention to the constructedness of the show—that it is a televisual text and that the viewer is watching (or, in a best-case scenario, participating) in the construction of meaning through attraction to or investment in the style of the televisual text.”— Encyclopedia of Gender in Media Televisuality "Intense and complex."— Markus Stauff, University of Amsterdam “[A] well-researched volume.”— Library JournalTable of ContentsContents Preface Part I The Problem of the Image 1 Excessive Style: The Crisis of Network Television 2 Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States: A Short History of Aesthetic Posturing 3 Modes of Production: The Televisual Apparatus Part II The Aesthetic Economy of Televisuality 4 Boutique: Designer Television/Auteurist Spin Doctoring 5 Franchiser: Digital Packaging/Industrial-Strength Semiotics 6 Loss Leader: Event Status Programming/Exhibitionist History 7 Trash TV: Thrift-Shop Video/More Is More 8 Tabloid TV: Styled Live/Ontological Stripmall Part III Cultural Aspects of Televisuality 9 Televisual Audience: Interactive Pizza 10 Televisual Economy: Recessionary Aesthetics 11 Televisual Politics: Negotiating Race in the L.A. Rebellion Postscript: Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasm Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The International Film Business
Book SynopsisExamining the independent film sector as a business on an international scale, author Angus Finney addresses the specific skills and knowledge required to successfully navigate the international film business.Finney describes and analyses the present structure of the film industry as a business, with a specific focus on the film (and entertainment) value chain and takes readers through the status of current digital technology, exploring ways in which this is changing the structure and opportunities offered by the industry in the future. The textbook provides information and advice on the different business and management skills and strategies that students and emerging practitioners will need to effectively engage with the industry in an international context. Case studies of films and TV, including Squid Game (2021), Parasite (2019), Game of Thrones (2011-2019) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), are supplemented by company case studiesTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition:"This really is the complete guide to today's film industry. Right up to date, but with a real understanding of the journey that the industry has taken to get here. Comprehensive and well researched; erudite and very readable. Quite simply the book that all practitioners and industry players alike have been waiting for. Many, I suspect, may pretend to themselves that they know it already, but privately will keep the book near at hand for constant reference and self assurance. I know I will."Ken Dearsley, Partner, DLA Piper Middle East LLP"This book successfully accomplishes what many others on the same topic have failed to do. It not only captures the excitement of the international film industry, but it also delves deeply into its structure and practices. The author uses to full advantage his first-hand knowledge of the film business to develop a comprehensive analysis that will have enduring value for both film insiders and readers that are fascinated by this industry."Joseph Lampel, Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Cass Business School, City University London"At last a book for the professional practitioners of filmmaking but accessible to the interested layman. The business of film, past, present and future, are researched in meticulous detail, helpful case studies and valuable personal observations. The book is full of insights into the digital age of distribution and production with a road map for the future development of the film business. If you are going to buy one book on the international business of film, this is it!"Sandy Lieberson, former President of Production, Twentieth Century FoxPraise for the first edition:'This really is the complete guide to today's film industry. Right up to date, but with a real understanding of the journey that the industry has taken to get here. Comprehensive and well researched; erudite and very readable. Quite simply the book that all practitioners and industry players alike have been waiting for. Many, I suspect, may pretend to themselves that they know it already, but privately will keep the book near at hand for constant reference and self assurance. I know I will.'Ken Dearsley, Partner, DLA Piper Middle East LLP'This book successfully accomplishes what many others on the same topic have failed to do. It not only captures the excitement of the international film industry, but it also delves deeply into its structure and practices. 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