"Many proclaimed the "end of television" in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a central space in American living rooms for the preceding fifty years were radically remade. In this revised, second edition of her d…
Overview: the transition from crime films to television series: a brief history -- American arrivistes: Hannah Weinstein, HUAC and Colonel March of Scotland Yard -- Cultural accommodations-domestic and foreign -- Conclusion.
Which strategies has Mel Brooks used to survive, adapt and thrive in the cultural industries? How has he gained his reputation as a multimedia survivor? Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks's adaptation strat…
Which strategies has Mel Brooks used to survive, adapt and thrive in the cultural industries? How has he gained his reputation as a multimedia survivor? Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks's adaptation strat…
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Akteure, ihre Merkmale und die Organisationsformen des internationalen Fernsehformathandels untersucht. Der Fernsehformathandel ist dabei dem Bereich der Beschaffung bzw. Produktion von Unterhaltungsprogrammen im TV-Bereich zuzuordnen. Seine…
Presenting 31 essays covering the history and development of television studies, this volume explores a wide range of topics including technology and aesthetics, television's relationship to the state, and televisual commerce.
This book focuses on the people-such as television set assemblers, talent scouts, and community regulators-who produce television but are not acknowledged as production workers within Hollywood s industrial hierarchies.
Below the Line illuminates the hidden labor of people who not only produce things that the television industry needs, such as a bit of content or a policy sound bite, but also produce themselves in the service of capital expansion. Vicki Mayer considers the work of television se…
