Media, industries, research: problematizing the field PART I Perspectives: conceptual and critical directions
1. Assembling production studies: formative interventions in Britain and Europe
2. Origins of research into media industries conducted in the United States
3. Meeting the challenges of media and marketing convergence: revising critical political economy approaches
4. Why should we care about media policy? Critical directions in media policy research
5. Economic perspectives on the characteristics and operation of media industries
6. The state of media management research
7. Critical and cultural? Production studies as situated storytelling
8. Locating and localizing media industry studies: the case of Greece PART II Interventions: rethinking the field
9. Industrial media studies: considering infrastructures for audience manufacture
10. The infrastructural turn in media and internet research
11. Informality and indeterminacy in media industries research
12. An industry of its own? Approaching the American comic book industry
13. Approaching race in media industries research
14. Methodological approaches to women’s work in Hollywood
15. Global configurations: re-spatializing labor in contemporary film and television production
16. Producing for small audiences: smallness and peripherality in the global media industries
17. Currents of change: the unstoppable momentum of the Chinese media industrial complex
18. Bricks, mortar and media: understanding the media industries through their buildings
19. Authorship and agency in the media industries PART III Transformations: digitalization and industry change
20. The online television industry: fragmentation, consolidation, and power
21. Children and the media industries: an overlooked but very special "television" audience
22. Game-changer or a new shape to familiar dynamics? Netflix and the American indie film sector
23. User as asset, music as liability: the moral economy of the "value gap" in a platform musical economy
24. The digital news industry: the intertwining digital commodities of audiences and news
25. The dynamics of the book publishing industry
26. Social media industries and the rise of the platform
27. When East Asian media industries are faced with digitalization: transformation and survival strategies PART IV Intersections: transnational exchanges and industry traversings
28. Creating that "local connect": the dubbing of Hollywood into Hindi
29. The Hollywood-Chinawood relationship: continuities and changes
30. TV formats: transnationalizing television production and distribution
31. From idents to influencers: the promotional screen industries
32. Branded entertainment: a critical review
33. Gatekeepers of culture in the music video supply chain
34. The immersive cinema experience economy: the UK film industry’s third sector
35. Transmediality as an industrial form
36. Sports rights: global content, national markets, and regulatory issues PART V Practices: doing media industries research and pedagogy
37. Writing film industry history
38. Writing the airwaves: recent trends in histories of US broadcasting
39. Policy studies and the case for plurality
40. Media economics and management as optimization research: toward a shared methodology
41. Backstage observations: studying media producers
42. Breaking into Hollywood: strategies for interviewing media producers
43. Harnessing the life history method to study the media industries
44. Interfacing with industry
45. Media industries and audiences: an analytic dialogue
46. Ethics in media industries research
47. Appreciating the costs and benefits of media market research in the digital era
48. Numbers and qualitative media industries research
49. Teaching media industries through experiential learning: pathways to engagement and understanding