Making media work : cultures of management in the entertainment industries /

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Imprint:New York : New York University Press, ©2014.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 330 pages).
Language:English
Series:Critical cultural communication
Critical cultural communication.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11754434
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Other authors / contributors:Johnson, Derek, 1979- editor.
Kompare, Derek, editor.
Santo, Avi, editor.
ISBN:9780814724989
0814724981
9780814764695
081476469X
9780814760994
0814760996
9780814764558 (ebk)
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:In popular culture, management in the media industry is frequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, and market researchers-""the suits""--Who oppose the more productive forces of creative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversion of bureaucratic hierarchies. However, such portrayals belie the reality of how media management operates as a culture of shifting discourses, dispositions, and tactics that create meaning, generate value, and shape media work throughout each moment of production and consumption. Making Media Work aims to provi.
Other form:Print version: Johnson, Derek. Making Media Work. New York : NYU Press, 2014 9780814764695