| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 455 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Time Warner, Inc.
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Verlagsgruppe Bertelsmann.
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News Corporation.
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| SUBJECT |
News Corporation fast |
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Time Warner, Inc. fast |
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Verlagsgruppe Bertelsmann fast |
| Subject |
Cultural industries.
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Conglomerate corporations.
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Industrial concentration.
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Mass media and globalization.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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Conglomerate corporations
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Cultural industries
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Industrial concentration
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Mass media and globalization
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011044407 |
| ISBN |
9780739144053 |
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0739144057 |
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