Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries
About the Book Series
This series highlights recent scholarship in the study of media and cultural industries. Encompassing issues of production, policy, distribution, and consumption, it provides researchers with an essential resource for key ideas, innovations, and debates in the field.
Streaming Europe: How Transnational Streaming is Reshaping European Film and Television Markets
1st Edition
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By Tim Raats, Catalina Iordache
May 25, 2026
Streaming Europe explores how global streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video have reshaped the audiovisual landscape across Europe. Since Netflix’s arrival in 2012, the European media environment has undergone a rapid transformation, affecting every level of the ...
Internet Celebrities in China
1st Edition
By Xinyi Yang
January 27, 2026
This comprehensive study offers an examination of China’s Internet celebrity ("Wang Hong") phenomenon through a critical political economy framework, investigating how social media platforms, talent agencies, and e-commerce systems intersect to create a complex digital labour ecosystem. Employing ...
Global and Local Trends in Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
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By Pallavi Mishra, Manju Kaushik
January 22, 2026
Global and Local Trends in Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship explores the cutting-edge technologies and entrepreneurial shifts transforming how media is created, distributed, and consumed worldwide. The book offers readers a clear understanding of how emerging technologies—such as VR, AR, AI, ...
Latin American Filmmakers and European Film Funds: Refuse. Resist. Reframe
1st Edition
By Bolesław Racięski
January 22, 2026
As filmmakers in the Global South are increasingly faced with the choice of succumbing to foreign visions of their own culture or losing access to indispensable funds and future prospects, this study explores this quandary through studying filmmaker’s own perspectives. The book focuses on ...
Governance Models in Public Service Media: Participation, Reputation, and Sustainability in the Era of Platformization
1st Edition
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By Ana María López-Cepeda, Carmen Costa-Sánchez, Marius Dragomir
December 29, 2025
Governance Models in Public Service Media presents the solutions for European Public Service Media to face its new governance models in a new media landscape with new realities and challenges that affect legality, sustainability, financing, and start-up, without losing its public value and its ...
Levelling Up the Screen Industries?: Film and Television Production as Regenerative Strategy in Places Left Behind
1st Edition
By Mark McKenna
November 03, 2025
This timely book examines how screen industry development has emerged as a vital strategy for economic and cultural regeneration in England's post-industrial regions. While Bristol, Manchester, and Liverpool have become established creative hubs, this study shifts focus to three underrepresented ...
Australian Cultural Policy Unravelled: The Digital Demise of National Television Drama
1st Edition
By Anna Potter, Marion McCutcheon
August 11, 2025
This book explores the impacts of digitization and sector internationalization on national drama production and their consequences for industry, audiences, and domestic storytelling. Using Australia as a case study, it provides a systematic evaluation of the efficacy of cultural policy intended to ...
Curation in the Age of Platform Capitalism: The Value of Selection, Narration, and Expertise in New Media Cultures
1st Edition
By Panos Kompatsiaris
July 31, 2025
This book employs the figure of curation—the selection, arrangement, and display of objects, concepts, and things—to explore the cultures of platform capitalism. Considering its rise in the global art world as an authorial, meaning-making activity and an organizational-entrepreneurial endeavour, it...
Hollywood and China in the Post-postclassical Era
1st Edition
By Lara Herring
July 30, 2025
This book examines the contemporary relationship between Hollywood and China as case studies that help to define a new era in Hollywood film industry, style, and economics, which is termed the ‘post‑postclassical’ period. Centred around a case study of Legendary Entertainment, the analysis shows ...
Global Film Policies: New Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Ruby Cheung, John Hill, Nobuko Kawashima, Paul McDonald
July 29, 2025
Global Film Policies challenges conventional analyses of film policy as a stand-alone public policy confined within national boundaries and usually focused on supports for film production. The book argues for a more multi-faceted approach, extending beyond national boundaries and broadening its ...
The People We Watch: Documentary Contributors and What Their Experiences Tell Us About the Cultural Industries
1st Edition
By Emily Coleman
March 20, 2025
The People We Watch explores the politics of contemporary media production from the point of view of the ordinary people it represents. Based upon a series of in-depth interviews and the author’s own professional experience of working in the television industry, this book examines how documentary ...
The Travels of Media and Cultural Products: Cultural Transduction
1st Edition
By Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed
December 19, 2024
This book presents the Cultural Transduction framework as a conceptual tool to understand the processes that media and cultural products undergo when they cross cultural and national borders. Using a series of examples from pop culture, including films, television series, video games, memes and ...