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Corporations and Cultural Industries
Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation
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2011
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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.
The first section presents debates in social theory, addressing issues that pertain to cultural industries and dimensions in which they both challenge and extend these wider social theories. The second section presents detailed case studies of the three contemporary media ‘mega companies’ across the range of operations they coordinate, both within and outside the cultural industries. By analyzing the specifics and complexities of different media industries, Corporations and Cultural Industries examines how financialization processes re-gear the internal operations of media corporations in a manner that pits one sector against another. This book provides an in-depth study that can be used as stand-alone teaching resources or as a valuable supplement to a variety of media courses.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4403-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4405-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
456
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Contents No access
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List of Figures No access
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations No access
Preface and Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 01. Cultural Corporations and Capitalist Imperatives No access Pages 23 - 60
Chapter 02. Corporate Strategy and Structure in an Age of Paranational Hypercapitalism No access Pages 61 - 136
Chapter 03. Global Media, Regulation, and the State No access Pages 137 - 186
Chapter 04. Time Warner No access Pages 187 - 258
Chapter 05. Bertelsmann AG No access Pages 259 - 332
Chapter 06. News Corporation No access Pages 333 - 382
