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.
Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood
1st Edition
By Simon Hewitt
December 18, 2024
Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood provides a unique insight into the potential for online communication to enable audiences to exert a greater impact on film industrial practices than ever before. In an overarching analysis of contemporary Hollywood film financing, marketing, distribution, ...
Entrepreneurial Cosplay: Creating Identity, Building Identity, Brand and Business Acumen
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols, Amy C. Lewis, Dave Tomczyk
November 28, 2024
Entrepreneurial Cosplay takes a comprehensive and insightful look at the business of cosplay, exploring the ways that artists and fans engage in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial practices to gain personal and professional success. Centered around the concept of entrepreneurship and the newly ...
Configuring the Field of Character and Entertainment Licensing: The Licensing Expo and Other Sites of IP Management
1st Edition
By Avi Santo
October 09, 2024
This book examines the creative impact of licensing on the entertainment industry, how licensing practitioners’ occupational disposition is formed, and the role licensing professionals play in managing the circulation of intellectual property. Offering a study of the spatial logics and fantasies ...
European Audiovisual Policy in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Heritiana Ranaivoson, Sally Broughton Micova, Tim Raats
October 07, 2024
This book describes and critically addresses the innovations and shifts made in the revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) adopted by the European Parliament and Council in 2018. Reflecting on European Union regulation and policy practice in all its Member States, the book’s ...
Television’s Spatial Capital: Location, Relocation, Dislocation
1st Edition
By Myles McNutt
January 29, 2024
This book launches a comprehensive detailing of the dramatic expansion of the geography of television production into new cities, states, provinces, and countries, and how those responsible for shaping the "landscape" of television have been forced to adapt, taking established strategies for ...
Canadian Cultural Policy in Transition
1st Edition
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By Devin Beauregard, Jonathan Paquette
September 25, 2023
This book offers a comprehensive overview of Canadian cultural policy and research, at a time of transition and redefinition, to establish a dialogue between conventional and emerging foundations. Taking a historical view, the book informs insights on current trends in policy and explores global ...
Authorship as Promotional Discourse in the Screen Industries: Selling Genius
1st Edition
By Leora Hadas
August 01, 2022
This book discusses the use of authorship discourses and author figures in the promotion and marketing of media content, dealing with the U.S. mainstream media, including franchise film, network television, and triple-A video games. The research takes a unique approach studying ideas of authorship...
Transnational Latin American Television: Genres, Formats and Adaptations
1st Edition
By Nahuel Ribke
August 01, 2022
This book examines the process of transnationalization of Latin American television industries. Drawing upon six representative case studies spanning the subcontinent’s vast and diverse geo-political and cultural landscape, the book offers a unique exploration of the ongoing formation of ...
Asia-Pacific Film Co-productions: Theory, Industry and Aesthetics
1st Edition
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By Dal Yong Jin, Wendy Su
September 30, 2021
This book examines cross-regional film collaboration within the Asia-Pacific region. Through a mixed methods approach of political economy, industry and market, as well as textual analysis, the book contributes to the understanding of the global fusion of cultural products and the reconfiguration ...
Political Economy of Media Industries: Global Transformations and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Randy Nichols, Gabriela Martinez
September 30, 2021
This book provides a critical political economic examination of the impact of increasingly concentrated global media industries. It addresses different media and communication industries from around the globe, including film, television, music, journalism, telecommunication, and information ...
Media Work, Mothers and Motherhood: Negotiating the International Audio-Visual Industry
1st Edition
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By Susan Liddy, Anne O'Brien
April 21, 2021
This interdisciplinary and international volume offers an innovative and critical exploration of the impact of motherhood on the engagement of women in media and creative industries across the globe. Diverse contributions critically engage with the intersections and overlap between the social ...
Audio-Visual Industries and Diversity: Economics and Policies in the Digital Era
1st Edition
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By Luis A. Albornoz, Ma. Trinidad Garcia Leiva
December 18, 2020
This book reflects critically on issues of diversity, access, and the expansion of digital technologies in audio-visual industries, particularly in terms of economics and policies. It brings together specialists in cultural diversity and media industries, presenting an international and ...