Media Industries Books, 2015-2016
I'm teaching my Media Industries graduate seminar again this fall, so it's time to again offer a new list of recent industry related book publications (and to provide my biennial post on this blog).
As before (see prior lists below), this list consists of books featuring a range of approaches to the media industries. In an effort to be as expansive as possible, I have included everything from scholarly manuscripts to introductory textbooks to select popular/crossover publications.
As before (see prior lists below), this list consists of books featuring a range of approaches to the media industries. In an effort to be as expansive as possible, I have included everything from scholarly manuscripts to introductory textbooks to select popular/crossover publications.
Please contact me via Twitter @aperren or by email (aperren [at] utexas.edu) if you have additional suggestions or updates regarding this list.
Also recommended: Nedda Ahmed’s Media Industries Pinterest board, which regularly features new titles.
- Peter Alilunas, Smutty Little Films: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video(2016)
- Amelia Arsenault and Alisa Perren with the Media Industries Journal Editorial Collective, eds., Media Industries: Perspectives on an Evolving Field (2016)
- Karina Aveyard, Albert Moran, and Pia Majbritt Jensen, eds., New Patterns in Global Television Formats (2016)
- Doris Baltruschat and Mary Erickson, eds., Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe(2015)
- Miranda J. Banks, The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild (2015)
- Miranda J. Banks, Bridget Conor, and Vicki Mayer, eds., Production Studies, The Sequel!: Cultural Studies of the Global Media Industries (2015)
- Christopher Beach, A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process (2015)
- Jayson Beaster-Jones, Music Commodities, Markets, and Values: Music as Merchandise (2016)
- Lucy Bennett, Bertha Chin, and Bethan Jones, eds., Crowdfunding the Future: Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society (2015)
- Benjamin Birkenbine, Rodrigo Gomez, and Janet Wasko, eds., Global Media Giants(2016)
- Nicholas David Bowman, John S.W. Spinda, and Jimmy Sanderson, eds., Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry: Media, Players, and Society (2016)
- Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall, and Andrew Higson, eds., European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life (2015)
- Joshua Braun, This Program is Brought to You By…Distributing Television News Online(2015)
- Liam Burke, The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre(2015)
- Emily Carman, Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System(2016)
- Jean Chalaby, The Format Age: Television’s Entertainment Revolution (2015)
- David Church, Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (2015)
- J.D. Connor, The Studios After the Studios: Neoclassical Hollywood (1970-2015) (2015)
- Keith Corson, Trying to Get Over: African American Directors After Exploitation, 1977-1986(2016)
- Virginia Crisp, Film Distribution in the Digital Age: Pirates and Professionals (2015)
- Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson, eds., Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor (2016)
- Marijke de Valck, Brendan Kredell, and Skaidi Loist, eds., Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice (2016)
- Donald Dewey, James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies (2016)
- Rajinder Dudrah, Elke Mader, and Bernhard Fuchs, eds., SRK and Global Bollywood (2015)
- Tim Dwyer, Convergent Media and Piracy (2015)
- Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W. Harrow, eds., Rethinking African Cultural Production(2015)
- Elizabeth Ellcessor, Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation(2016)
- Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan, The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—and They Shape Us (2016)
- Martin Flanagan, Andrew Livingstone, and Mike McKenny, The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe (2016)
- Matthew Freeman, Industrial Approaches to Media: A Methodological Gateway to Industry Studies (2016)
- Joel Frykolm, George Kleine and American Cinema: The Movie Business and Film Culture in the Silent Era (2015)
- Christian Fuchs, Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media (2015)
- Jeremy Geltzer, Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment(2016)
- Nitin Govil, Orienting Hollywood: A Century of Film Culture Between Hollywood and Bombay (2015)
- Paul Grainge and Catherine Johnson, Promotional Screen Industries (2015)
- Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kaapa, eds., Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace (2015)
- Orit Halbern, Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason Since 1945 (2015)
- John Hartley, Wen Wen, and Henry Siling Li, Creative Economy and Culture: Challenges, Changes, and Futures for the Creative Industries (2015)
- Timothy Havens and Amanda Lotz, Understanding Media Industries (2nded., 2016)
- David S. Heineman, Thinking About Video Games: Interviews with the Experts (2015)
- Erin Hill, Never Done: A History of Women’s Work in Media Production (2016)
- Aniko Imre, TV Socialism (2016)
- Richard B. Jewell, Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures (2016)
- Meg Leta Jones, Ctrl + Z: The Right To Be Forgotten (2016)
- Michael Keane, The Chinese Television Industry (2016)
- Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer, eds., Cycles, Spinoffs, Remakes, and Reboots: Multiplicities in Film and Television (2016)
- Holly Kruse, Off-Track and Online: The Networked Spaces of Horse Racing (2016)
- Jon Lewis, ed., Producing (2015)
- Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas, Informal Media Economy (2015)
- Ramon Lobato and James Meese, eds., Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (2016)
- Harriet Margolis, Alexis Krasilovsky, and Julia Stein, Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World (2015)
- Richard Maxwell, ed., The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media (2015)
- Paul McDonald, Emily Carman, Eric Hoyt and Philip Drake, eds., Hollywood and the Law(2015)
- John McGuire, Greg G. Armfield, and Adam Earnhardt, eds., The ESPN Effect: Exploring the Worldwide Leader in Sports (2015)
- Kim McNamara, Paparazzi: Media Practices and Celebrity Culture (2015)
- Edward F. McQuarrie, The Market Research Toolbox: A Concise Guide for Beginners (4thed., 2015)
- Jeremy Wade Morris, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture (2015)
- Jade Miller, Nollywood Central (2016)
- James Andrew Miller, Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency(2016)
- Nolwenn Mingant, Cecilia Tirtaine, and Joel Augros, eds., Film Marketing in the 21stCentury (2015)
- Eli M. Noam and The International Media Concentration Collaboration, Who Owns the World’s Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World (2016)
- Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, eds., Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (2015)
- Kate Oakley and Justin O'Connor, eds., The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries (2015)
- Chris Paterson, David Lee, Anamik Saha, and Anna Zoellner, eds., Advancing Media Production Research: Shifting Sites, Methods, and Politics (2016)
- William Paul, When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film (2016)
- Matthew Payne, Playing War: Military Video Games After 9/11 (2016)
- Allison Perlman, Public Interests: Media Advocacy and the Struggles Over Television(2016)
- Shawn M. Powers and Michael Jablonski, The Real Cyber War: The Political Economy of Internet Freedom (2015)
- Yeidy Rivero, Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960(2015)
- Violaine Rouseel and Denise Bielby, eds., Brokerage and Production in the French Entertainment Industries: Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets (2015)
- Nicholas Sammond, Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation (2015)
- Avi Santo, Selling the Silver Bullet: The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing (2015)
- John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory (2015)
- Matt Sienkiewicz, The Other Air Force: U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11 (2016)
- Jacob Smith and Neil Verma, eds., Anatomy of Sound: Norman Corwin and Media Authorship (2016)
- Michael Glover Smith and Adam Selzer, Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry (2015)
- Jason Sperb, Flickers of Film: Nostalgia in the Time of Digital Cinema (2016)
- Jason Squire, ed., The Movie Business Book (4th ed., 2016)
- Shelley Stamp, Lois Weber in Early Hollywood (2015)
- Nicole Starosielski, The Undersea Network (2015)
- Michael Strangelove, Post-TV: Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television (2015)
- Wendy Su, China’s Encounter with Global Hollywood: Cultural Policy and the Film Industry, 1994-2013 (2016)
- Nuria Triana-Toribio, Spanish Film Cultures: The Making and Unmaking of Spanish Cinema(2016)
- Valentina Vitali, Capital and Popular Cinema: The Dollars are Coming! (2016)
- Travis Vogan, ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire (2015)
- Johnny Walker, Contemporary British Horror: Industry, Genre, and Society (2015)
- Richard Lewis Ward, When the Cock Crows: The Pathe Exchange (2016)
- Michael Wolff, Television is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age (2015)
- Bilge Yesil, Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State (2016)
