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Bringing together 49 chapters from leading experts in media
industries research, this major collection offers an authoritative
overview of the current state of scholarship while setting out
proposals for expanding, re-thinking and innovating the field.
Media industries occupy a central place in modern societies,
producing, circulating, and presenting the multitude of cultural
forms and experiences we encounter in our daily lives. The chapters
in this volume begin by outlining key conceptual and critical
perspectives while also presenting original interventions to prompt
new lines of inquiry. Other chapters then examine the impact of
digitalization on the media industries, intersections formed
between industries or across geographic territories, and the
practices of doing media industries research and teaching. General
ideas and arguments are illustrated through specific examples and
case studies drawn from a range of media sectors, including
advertising, publishing, comics, news, music, film, television,
branded entertainment, live cinema experiences, social media, and
music video. Making a vital and significant contribution to media
research, this volume is essential reading for students and
academics seeking to understand and evaluate the work of the media
industries. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com
Bringing together 49 chapters from leading experts in media
industries research, this major collection offers an authoritative
overview of the current state of scholarship while setting out
proposals for expanding, re-thinking and innovating the field.
Media industries occupy a central place in modern societies,
producing, circulating, and presenting the multitude of cultural
forms and experiences we encounter in our daily lives. The chapters
in this volume begin by outlining key conceptual and critical
perspectives while also presenting original interventions to prompt
new lines of inquiry. Other chapters then examine the impact of
digitalization on the media industries, intersections formed
between industries or across geographic territories, and the
practices of doing media industries research and teaching. General
ideas and arguments are illustrated through specific examples and
case studies drawn from a range of media sectors, including
advertising, publishing, comics, news, music, film, television,
branded entertainment, live cinema experiences, social media, and
music video. Making a vital and significant contribution to media
research, this volume is essential reading for students and
academics seeking to understand and evaluate the work of the media
industries. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com
When the videocassette recorder was launched on the consumer market
in the mid-1970s, it transformed home entertainment. Bringing
together complementary but also competing interests from the
consumer electronics industry and the film, television and other
copyright industries, video created a new sector of media business.
Two decades later, DVD reinvented video media for the digital age.
DVD provided consumers with an innovative form of entertainment
technology and almost instantaneously became the catalyst for a
huge boom in the video market. Although the VCR and DVD created
major markets for video hardware and software, the video business
has been continually shaped by industry conflicts and tensions.
Repeatedly the video market has become divided when faced with the
introduction of competing formats. Easy reproduction of films and
other works on cassette or disc made video software a lucrative
market for the copyright industries but also intensified struggles
to combat the effects of commercial piracy. "Video and DVD
Industries" examines the business of video entertainment and
provides the first study looking at DVD from an industrial
perspective. Detailing divisions in the video business, the book
outlines industry battles over incompatible formats, from the
Betamax/VHS war, to competing laserdisc systems, alternatives such
as video compact disc or Digital Video Express, and the
introduction of HDDVD and Blu-ray high-definition systems. Chapters
also look at the formation of international markets in the
globalization of video media, the contradictory responses of the
Hollywood studios to video and DVD, and the legal and technological
measures taken to control industrialized video piracy.
A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and
distribution In the twenty-first century, the platforms that both
create and host content have become nearly as important as media
itself. Companies such as Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube have
attained a massive hold on the public imagination and have become
an almost ineluctable part of people's everyday lives. While the
workings of media distribution had until very recently remained
inconsequential to the average consumer, the recent popularization
of various online platforms has made the question of distribution
immediate to everyone. Digital Media Distribution: Portals,
Platforms, Pipelines provides a timely examination of the
multifaceted distribution landscape in a moment of transformation
and conceptualizes media distribution as a complex site of power,
privilege, and gatekeeping. These tensions have local, national,
and global consequences on the autonomy of creative workers, as
well as on how we gain access to, engage with, and understand
cultural products. Drawing on original research into distribution
practices in industries as diverse as television, film, videogames,
literature, and adult entertainment, each chapter explores how
digitization has changed media distribution and its broader
economic, industrial, social, and cultural implications. Bringing
together experts from around the world and across the media
industries, Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms,
Pipelines presents a vast array of critical approaches and
illustrative case studies for understanding the factors that have
an impact on the way media travels and moves throughout our digital
lives.
The purpose of this series is to promote the study of writing in
the English language through the introduction of the major figures
writing in English throughout the ages. They provide an analytical
and historical framework for understanding their subjects. Philip
Roth's career has spanned more than 40 years, in which he has
produced more than 20 books and wom almost major literary award.
The Jewish-American writer's work is a search for form that takes
him from social realism, through comedy and fantasy, to
pseudo-confessional and a postmodern aesthetic. Paul McDonald
explores each of Roth's works in turn, from his first book "Goodbye
Columbus" to "The Dying Animal". He shows that although Roth writes
about the human condition in often provocative and unusual ways,
his treatment is witty and always based on values.
Storytelling introduces some of the key issues addressed by
narratologists, explaining the more useful terminology and
concepts, and applying them to fictional texts that are commonly
studied on literature courses. Invaluable to both students of
criticism and creative writers, the book explores the constituent
elements of stories: their structure, the significance of who tells
them, and the important aspects of characterisation and dialogue.
Throughout the discussions are accessible, entertaining and, above
all, relevant to contemporary readers.
Looks at the development and changing organization of the star
system in the American film industry. Tracing the popularity of
star performers from the early "cinema of attractions" to the
Internet universe, Paul McDonald explores the ways in which
Hollywood has made and sold its stars. Through focusing on
particular historical periods, case studies of Mary Pickford, Bette
Davis, James Cagney, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith
illustrate the key conditions influencing the star system in silent
cinema, the studio era and the New Hollywood.
Paul McDonald s third collection of poetry - explores territory
familiar to readers of his previous work: creativity, comedy and
the modern world. His succinct poems chart the experience of living
in an age of chaos and absurdity, and while at times this
experience is nightmarish and surreal, the consolations of art,
love and humour are always close at hand.
A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and
distribution In the twenty-first century, the platforms that both
create and host content have become nearly as important as media
itself. Companies such as Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube have
attained a massive hold on the public imagination and have become
an almost ineluctable part of people’s everyday lives. While the
workings of media distribution had until very recently remained
inconsequential to the average consumer, the recent popularization
of various online platforms has made the question of distribution
immediate to everyone. Digital Media Distribution: Portals,
Platforms, Pipelines provides a timely examination of the
multifaceted distribution landscape in a moment of transformation
and conceptualizes media distribution as a complex site of power,
privilege, and gatekeeping. These tensions have local, national,
and global consequences on the autonomy of creative workers, as
well as on how we gain access to, engage with, and understand
cultural products. Drawing on original research into distribution
practices in industries as diverse as television, film, videogames,
literature, and adult entertainment, each chapter explores how
digitization has changed media distribution and its broader
economic, industrial, social, and cultural implications. Bringing
together experts from around the world and across the media
industries, Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms,
Pipelines presents a vast array of critical approaches and
illustrative case studies for understanding the factors that have
an impact on the way media travels and moves throughout our digital
lives.
Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the
conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or
presented - from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into
production, to the copyright laws that govern its distribution and
the censorship laws that may block exhibition. Equally, Hollywood
has left its own impression on the American legal system by
lobbying to expand the duration of copyright, providing a highly
visible stage for contract disputes and representing the legal
system on screen. In this comprehensive collection, international
experts offer chapters on key topics, including copyright,
trademark, piracy, antitrust, censorship, international exhibition,
contracts, labour and tax. Drawing on historical and contemporary
case studies, Hollywood and the Law provides readers with a wide
range of perspectives on how legal frameworks shape the culture and
commerce of popular film.
Paul McDonald's study of the actor-filmmaker George Clooney traces
the star's career, from his role in the hit television medical
drama ER to his dual screen persona, allowing him to move
seamlessly from commercial hits such as Out of Sight (1998) and
Ocean's Eleven (2001) to more offbeat roles in such films as Oh
Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). McDonald also considers Clooney's
political activism and his roles in such explicity political films
as Three Kings (1999) and Syriana (2005), as well as his work as a
producer of films including Argo (2012) and as director of
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002); Good Night, and Good Luck
(2005) and Suburbicon (2017) among others. McDonald places Clooney
in the context of the Hollywood star system, considering the
argument that Clooney's star persona has many similarities with
that of classical Hollywood movie stars such as Cary Grant, but
also addresses Clooney as a very 21st century transmedia celebrity.
This title considers aspects of the legacy that makes Film4
synonymous with a rejuvenated national cinema. When Channel 4 was
launched in 1982 its policy of commissioning new feature films for
television broadcast and selective cinema release marked a shift in
British film culture. Widely credited with revitalising a moribund
UK film industry, the initiative represented a new intervention on
the part of a public service broadcaster and, in turn, redefined
the place of film on television with landmark strands from Film on
Four to The Eleventh Hour. Channel 4 withstood early criticism from
some industry voices and controversy aroused by its broadcast film
provision; in 1987 its contribution to European cinema was
recognised in the accolade of the Roberto Rosselini award at the
Cannes film festival. Since then the international box office
successes of many Film4 titles (from My Beautiful Laundrette and
The Crying Game to Four Weddings and Funeral and Slumdog
Millionaire), have made Film4 synonymous with a rejuvenated
national cinema and established television as a vital cornerstone
of government film policy. This special issue investigates aspects
of that legacy, casting a critical eye upon received wisdom, and
drawing on new archival and interview material to offer a
revisionist history of the broadcaster's rich and diverse
contributions to British film culture. It is indispensible to
anyone with an interest in British film over the past 30 years.
This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on
land in the battle for Maltas survival in the Second World War. It
was a battle which decided the outcome of the war in North Africa
and the Mediterranean. Adrian Warburton, the airman described in
the subtitle by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, went
missing in 1944 in a single-seat American aircraft. He had flown at
least 395 operational missions mostly from Malta. Unusually for a
reconnaissance pilot, Warby as he was known was credited with nine
aircraft shot down. He lay undiscovered for sixty years. He is the
RAFs most highly decorated photo-recce pilot. In Malta, Adrian met
Christina, a stranded dancer turned aircraft plotter in the secret
world deep beneath Vallettas fortress walls. She too was decorated
for heroism. Together, they became part of the islands folklore.
How important was Malta and the girl from Cheshire to the man
behind the medals? This tale takes the form of a quest opening in a
cemetery in Bavaria and closing in another in Malta. In between,
the reader is immersed within the tension and drama surrounding
Maltas Greater Siege retracing the steps of the main characters
over the forever changed face of the island following its heroic
victory.
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