Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 455 pages) : illustrations. |
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Series |
Critical media studies
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Critical media studies.
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Contents |
List of tables -- List of figures -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Cultural corporations and capitalist imperatives -- Corporate strategy and structure in an age of "paranational hypercapitalism" -- Global media, regulation and the state -- Time Warner -- Bertelsmann -- News Corporation -- Conclusion -- List of references -- Endnotes -- Index. |
Summary |
"Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation, by Scott Warren Fitzgerald, provides an introduction to the political economy of international media corporations. This text fills a fundamental gap in the critical media studies field, expanding on the relative paucity of academic studies. To ground the discussion, Fitzgerald focuses on the growth of three specific media conglomerates: Time Warner, Bertelsmann and News Corporation. Adopting an approach rooted in critical political economy, the book explains the corporations' growth through an engagement with broader social theories: the wider conditions of capital accumulation (especially theories of corporate competition and financialization); issues of institutional logic and corporate strategies; and the role of states as regulators, mediators of opposed interests, and facilitators of corporate expansion"--Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Time Warner, Inc.
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Time Warner, Inc. |
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Verlagsgruppe Bertelsmann.
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Verlagsgruppe Bertelsmann. |
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News Corporation.
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News Corporation. |
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Time Warner, Inc. |
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Verlagsgruppe Bertelsmann. |
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News Corporation. |
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Cultural industries.
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Cultural industries. |
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Conglomerate corporations.
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Conglomerate corporations. |
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Industrial concentration.
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Industrial concentration. |
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Mass media and globalization.
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Mass media and globalization. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Fitzgerald, Scott W., 1973- Corporations and cultural industries. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012 9780739144039 (DLC) 2011044407 (OCoLC)753632424 |
ISBN |
9780739144053 (electronic book) |
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0739144057 (electronic book) |
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9780739144039 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0739144030 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
9786613432780 |
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