"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 b ..."
Black Television Travels African American Media around the Globe (Critical Cultural Communication) by TimothyHavens Paperback, 227 Pages, Published 2013 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-3721-7, ISBN: 0-8147-3721-8
"“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 ..."
"This is an introduction to the media industries, a topic that sometimes has its own course but is also incorporated into courses on media criticism, media literacy, and even a basic mass media course where the instructor wishes to teach from topical paperbacks as opposed to a big textbook. The book examines the influence of media industry organization and practices on society; at the same time, it offers students pursuing both scholarl ..."
"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 Weste ..."
Critical Cultural Communication Ser. Black Television Travels : African American Media Around the Globe by TimothyHavens Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by New York University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-3720-0, ISBN: 0-8147-3720-X
"Despite its eventual successes, however, Fresh Prince encountered the same
kind of resistance among buyers when it first turned up on the world markets as
many other hit African American series. Paloma Garcia-Cuesta (1999),
acquisitions director at the Spanish channel Antena 3, which broadcast Fresh
Prince in Spain, explained, “Apparently, there was no relation between those
characters and Spanish people.” Similarly, Torsten Dewi ( ..."
Global Television Marketplace (International Screen Industries) by TimothyHavens Paperback, 191 Pages, Published 2008 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-104-8, ISBN: 1-84457-104-1
"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 t ..."
"Providing an inside look at the cultural assumptions and business practices of television merchants, this book argues that the market in television programs responds principally to institutional needs, rather than to the wishes of the viewing public or the skills of television's creative artists."
"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 pr ..."
Black Television Travels African American Media around the Globe by TimothyHavens 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-6076-5, ISBN: 0-8147-6076-7
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"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 pr ..."
"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 pr ..."
"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 pr ..."
"Television scholarship has substantially ignored programming aimed at Black audiences despite a few sweeping histories and critiques. In this volume, the first of its kind, contributors examine the televisual diversity, complexity, and cultural imperatives manifest in programming directed at a Black and marginalized audience. Watching While Black considers its subject from an entirely new angle in an attempt to understand the ..."
"Television scholarship has substantially ignored programming aimed at Black audiences despite a few sweeping histories and critiques. In this volume, the first of its kind, contributors examine the televisual diversity, complexity, and cultural imperatives manifest in programming directed at a Black and marginalized audience."Watching While Black" considers its subject from an entirely new angle in an attempt to understand the lives, mo ..."