Mayer Below the Line

Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9413-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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 Hollywoods industrial hierarchies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mayer, Vicki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Fernsehproduktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction: Who Are Television's Producers? 1

Part I

1. Producers as Creatives: Creativity in Television Set Production 31

2. Producers as Professionals: Professionalism in Soft-Core Production 66

Part II

3. Sponsoring Selves: Sponsorship in Production 103

4. Regulating Selves: Regulation in Production 139

Conclusion: Rethinking Production Studies in the New Television Economy 175

Notes 187

Bibliography 207

Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Vicki Mayer is Associate Professor of Communication at Tulane University. She is a co-editor of Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries and editor of the journal Television and New Media.