Making Media Work by Derek Johnson

Making Media Work by Derek Johnson

Aims to provide a deeper and more nuanced understanding of management within the entertainment industries. This book traces the changing roles of management both historically and in the contemporary moment within US and international contexts, and across a range of media forms, from film and television to video games and social media.

"Making Media Work marks a distinctive intervention in the study of management in the media industriesDrawing from a variety of perspectives and incorporating rare insights from industry insiders, this book promises to be highly influential for media scholars, providing a useful framework and extended focus on the work of intermediaries. A terrific book." - Alisa Perren,author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s "This collection by academics and researcherschallenges the traditional and often stereotypical imagery of the entertainment and media industrys management ethos across a range of media forms, from film and television to video games and social media. With an interdisciplinary emphasis on configuration theory and organizational sociology, the books13 chapters provide an intimate insight and perspective on the industrys administrative leadership and its operations management.Summing Up: Recommended." (Choice) "The volume speaks to a growing number of media researchers and students interested in the transformation of media labor and workplace politics in the making of media contents." (Cultural Sociology)

Derek Johnson is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries and the co-editor of A Companion to Media Authorship.

Derek Kompare is Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television and CSI.

Avi Santo is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Old Dominion University.

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ISBN 13	9780814760994
ISBN 10	0814760996
Title	Making Media Work
Author	Derek Johnson
Series	Critical Cultural Communication
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New York University Press
Year published	2014-08-01
Number of pages	277
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