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Australian television has been transformed over the past decade.
Cross-media ownership and audience-reach regulations redrew the map
and business culture of television; leading business entrepreneurs
acquired television stations and then sold them in the bust of the
late 1980s; and new television services were developed for
non-English speaking and Aboriginal viewers. Australian Television
Culture is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the
fundamental changes of this period. It is also the first to offer a
substantial treatment of the significance of multiculturalism and
Aboriginal initiatives in television. Tracing the links between
local, regional, national and international television services,
Tom O'Regan builds a picture of Australian television. He argues
that we are not just an outpost of the US networks, and that we
have a distinct television culture of our own.
Tom O'Regan's book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war
cinema. It takes as its starting point Bazin's question 'What is
cinema?'and asks what the construct of a 'national' cinema means.
It looks at the broader concept from a different angle, taking film
beyond the confines of 'art' into the broader cultural world.
O'Regan's analysis situates Australian cinema in its historical and
cultural perspective producing a valuable insight into the issues
that have been raised by film policy, the cinema market place and
public discourse on film production strategies.
Since 1970 Australian film has enjoyed a revival. This book
contains detailed critiques of the key films of this period and
uses them to illustrate the recent theories on the international
and Australian cinema industries. Its conclusions on the nature of
the nation's cinema and the discourses within it are relevant
within a far wider context; film as a global phenomenon.
Australian television has been transformed over the past decade.
Cross-media ownership and audience-reach regulations redrew the map
and business culture of television; leading business entrepreneurs
acquired television stations and then sold them in the bust of the
late 1980s; and new television services were developed for
non-English speaking and Aboriginal viewers.Australian Television
Culture is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the
fundamental changes of this period. It is also the first to offer a
substantial treatment of the significance of multiculturalism and
Aboriginal initiatives in television.Tracing the links between
local, regional, national and international television services,
Tom O'Regan builds a picture of Australian television. He argues
that we are not just an outpost of the US networks, and that we
have a distinct television culture of our own.'.a truly innovative
book. The author ambitiously strives for a large-scale synthesis of
policy, program analysis, history, politics, international
influences and the Australian television system's place in the
world.' - Associate Professor Stuart Cunningham, Queensland
University of Technology
The Film Studio sheds new light on the evolution of global film
production, highlighting the role of film studios worldwide. The
authors explore the contemporary international production
environment, alleging that global competition is best understood as
an unequal and unstable partnership between the 'design interest'
of footloose producers and the 'location interest' of local actors.
Ben Goldsmith and Tom O'Regan identify various types of film
studios and investigate the consequences for Hollywood,
international film production, and the studio locations.
In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic
locations, producers and directors are taking their business to
foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was
shot in the United States-The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida.
Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of "runaway
productions"-the growing practice of producing American films and
television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher
have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the
phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural
perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary
screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing
government politics toward cultural industries.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Knowing, measuring and understanding media audiences have become a
multi-billion dollar business. But the convention that underpins
that business, audience ratings, is in crisis. Rating the Audience
is the first book to show why and how audience ratings research
became a convention, an agreement, and the first to interrogate the
ways that agreement is now under threat. Taking a historical
approach, the book looks at the evolution of audience ratings and
the survey industry. It goes on to analyse today's media
environment, looking at the role of the internet and the increased
difficulties it presents for measuring audiences. The book covers
all the major players and controversies, such as Facebook's privacy
rulings and Google's alliance with Nielsen. Offering the first real
comparative study, it will be critical for media students and
professionals.
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Locating Migrating Media (Hardcover)
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Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media
productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and
cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the
world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization,
focusing on the local impact of new sites of media production. The
book's chapters also question the role that film and television
industries and local and regional governments play in broader
economic develop and tax incentive schemes. While metaphors of
transportation, mobility, fluidity and change continue to serve as
key concepts and frames for understanding contemporary media
industries, products and processes, the essays in this book look to
local spaces, neighborhoods, cultural workers and stories to ground
the global that is, to interrogate the effect of media
globalization before, during and after film and television shooting
and onsite production. By locating migrating media, these chapters
seek to determine the political, economic and cultural conditions
that produce contemporary forms of televisual and cinematic
storytelling, and how these processes affect the inhabitants, the
"look" and the very geopolitical future of local communities,
neighborhoods, cities and regions. The focus on relocated screen
production highlights the act of film- and television-making, both
aesthetically and economically. To locate migrating media is
therefore to determine the political and cultural economies of
globalized sets and stages, be they in new studios or on city
streets or, perhaps most importantly, in our imaginations."
The Film Studio sheds new light on the evolution of global film
production, highlighting the role of film studios worldwide. The
authors explore the contemporary international production
environment, alleging that global competition is best understood as
an unequal and unstable partnership between the "design interest"
of footloose producers and the "location interest" of local actors.
Ben Goldsmith and Tom O'Regan identify various types of film
studios and investigate the consequences for Hollywood,
international film production, and the studio locations.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Knowing, measuring and understanding media audiences have become a
multi-billion dollar business. But the convention that underpins
that business, audience ratings, is in crisis. Rating the Audience
is the first book to show why and how audience ratings research
became a convention, an agreement, and the first to interrogate the
ways that agreement is now under threat. Taking a historical
approach, the book looks at the evolution of audience ratings and
the survey industry. It goes on to analyse today's media
environment, looking at the role of the internet and the increased
difficulties it presents for measuring audiences. The book covers
all the major players and controversies, such as Facebook's privacy
rulings and Google's alliance with Nielsen. Offering the first real
comparative study, it will be critical for media students and
professionals.
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