Global Entertainment Media

A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to political economy and cultural studies. Among other topics, Mirrlees examines: _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Paradigms of global entertainment media such as cultural imperialism and cultural globalization._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The business of entertainment media: the structure of capitalist culture/creative industries (financers, producers, distributors and exhibitors) and trends in the global political economy of entertainment media._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The "governance" of global entertainment media: state and inter-state media and cultural policies and regulations that govern the production, distribution and exhibition of entertainment media and enable or impede its cross-border flow._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The new international division of cultural labor (NICL): the cross-border production of entertainment by cultural workers in asymmetrically interdependent media capitals, and economic and cultural concerns surrounding runaway productions and co-productions. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The economic motivations and textual design features of globally popular entertainment forms such as blockbuster event films, TV formats, glocalized lifestyle brands and synergistic media._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The cross-cultural reception and effects of TV shows and films._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The World Wide Web, digitization and convergence culture._x005F_x000D_