[Commlist] New book: Routledge Companion to Media Industries

*Just Published*
ROUTLEDGE COMPANSION TO MEDIA INDUSTRIES
Edited by Paul McDonald

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.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-Industries/McDonald/p/book/9780367225261

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Media, Industries, Research: Problematizing the Field
Paul McDonald

PART I PERSPECTIVES: CONCEPTUAL AND CRITICAL DIRECTIONS

1 Assembling Production Studies: Formative Interventions in Britain and 
Europe
Graham Murdock

2 Origins of Research into Media Industries Conducted in the US
Janet Wasko

3 Meeting the Challenges of Media and Marketing Convergence: Revising 
Critical Political Economy Approaches
Jonathan Hardy

4 Why Should We Care About Media Policy? Critical Directions in Media 
Policy Research
Maria Michalis

5 Economic Perspectives on the Characteristics and Operation of Media 
Industries
Gillian Doyle

6 The State of Media Management Research
Ulrike Rohn

7 Critical and Cultural? Production Studies as Situated Storytelling
Philip Drake

8 Locating and Localizing Media Industry Studies: The Case of Greece
Georgia Aitaki, Lydia	Papadimitriou and Yannis Tzioumakis

PART II INTERVENTIONS: RETHINKING THE FIELD

9 Industrial Media Studies: Considering Infrastructures for Audience 
Manufacture
Lee McGuigan

10 The Infrastructural Turn in Media and Internet Research
David Hesmondhalgh

11 Informality and Indeterminacy in Media Industries Research
Ramon Lobato

12 An Industry of its Own? Approaching the American Comic Book Industry
Gregory Steirer and Alisa Perren

13 Approaching Race in Media Industries Research
Anamik Saha

14 Methodological Approaches to Women’s Work in Hollywood
Courtney Brannon Donoghue

15 Global Configurations: Re-Spatializing Labor in Contemporary Film and 
Television Production
Kevin Sanson

16 Producing for Small Audiences: Smallness and Peripherality in the 
Global Media Industries
Petr Szczepanik

17 Currents of Change: The Unstoppable Momentum of the Chinese Media 
Industrial Complex
Michael Keane

18 Bricks, Mortar and Media: Understanding the Media Industries Through 
their Buildings
Elizabeth Evans

19 Authorship and Agency in the Media Industries
Eva Novrup Redvall

PART III TRANSFORMATIONS: INDUSTRY EVOLUTION AND DIGITALIZATION

20 The Online Television Industry: Fragmentation, Consolidation and Power
Catherine Johnson

21 Children and the Media Industries: An Overlooked but Very Special 
“Television” Audience
Anna Potter and Jeanette Steemers

22 Game-Changer or a New Shape to Familiar Dynamics? Netflix and the 
American Indie Film Sector
Geoff King

23 User as Asset, Music as Liability: The Moral Economy of the “Value 
Gap” in a Platform Musical Economy
Andrew Leyshon and Allan Watson

24 The Digital News Industry: The Intertwining Digital Commodities of 
Audiences And News
Henrik Bødker

25 The Dynamics of the Book Publishing Industry
Angus Phillips

26 Social Media Industries and the Rise of the Platform
Pieter Verdegem

27 When East Asian Media Industries are Faced with Digitalization: 
Transformation And Survival Strategies
Anthony Fung and Georgia Chik

PART IV INTERSECTIONS: TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGES AND INDUSTRY TRAVERSINGS

28 Creating That “Local Connect”: The Dubbing of Hollywood into Hindi
Tejaswini Ganti

29 The Hollywood-Chinawood Relationship: Continuities and Changes
Wendy Su

30 Tv Formats: Transnationalizing Television Production and Distribution
Andrea Esser

31 From Idents yo Influencers: The Promotional Screen Industries
Paul Grainge

32 Branded Entertainment: A Critical Review
Katharina Stolley, Finola Kerrigan and Cagri Yalkin

33 Gatekeepers of Culture In The Music Video Supply Chain
Emily Caston

34 The Immersive Cinema Experience Economy: The UK Film Industry’s Third 
Sector
Sarah Atkinson and Helen Kennedy

35 Transmediality as an Industrial Form
Matthew Freeman

36 Sports Rights: Global Content, National Markets and Regulatory Issues
Paul Smith

PART V PRACTICES: DOING MEDIA INDUSTRIES RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGY

37 Writing Film Industry History
Andrew Spicer

38 Writing the Airwaves: Recent Trends in Histories of US Broadcasting
Jennifer Porst And Deborah L. Jaramillo

39 Policy Studies and the Case for Plurality
Jennifer Holt and Steven Secular

40 Media Economics and Management as Optimization Research: Towards a 
Shared Methodology
M. Bjørn von Rimscha

41 Backstage Observations: Studying Media Producers
Anna Zoellner

42 Breaking into Hollywood: Strategies for Interviewing Media Producers
David Craig

43 Harnessing the Life History Method to Study the Media Industries
Roei Davidson and Oren Meyers

44 Interfacing with Industry
Stuart Cunningham

45 Media Industries and Audiences: An Analytic Dialogue
Annette Hill

46 Ethics in Media Industries Research
Patrick Vonderau

47 Appreciating the Costs and Benefits of Media Market Research in the 
Digital Era
Justin Wyatt

48 Numbers and Qualitative Media Industries Research
Jade Miller

49 Teaching Media Industries Through Experiential Learning: Pathways to 
Engagement and Understanding
Erin Copple Smith

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