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  • From Networks to Netflix

    A Guide to Changing Channels

    Edited by Derek Johnson ...
    Now in a second edition, this textbook surveys the channels, platforms, and programming through which television distribution operates, with a diverse selection of contributors providing thorough explorations of global media industries in flux.Even as legacy media industries experience significant disruption in the face of streaming and online delivery, the power of the television channel persists ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Companion to Media Authorship

    Edited by Jonathan Gray, Derek Johnson ...
    A Companion to Media Authorship“Gray and Johnson have brought together a stellar group of authors whose works deftly explicate the complexities of negotiating ‘authorship’ across a range of cultural production sites. This definitive collection is an important and long-overdue contribution to contemporary media studies.”Serra Tinic, author of On Location: Canada’s Television Industry in a Global ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • Television Goes to the Movies

    by Jonathan Gray, Derek Johnson ...
    Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and moving towards each other in ever more ways. Set amidst this moment of unprecedented synergy, this book examines how television and film culture interact in the 21st century.Both media appear side by side in many platforms or venues, stories and storytellers cross between them, they ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Point of Sale

    Analyzing Media Retail

    by Daniel Herbert, Derek Johnson, Emily West, Greg Steirer, Heikki Tyni, Olli Sotamaa, Elizabeth Affuso, Avi Santo, Ethan Tussey0, Meredith A. Bak1, Courtney Brannon Donoghue2, Tim J. Anderson3, Lynn Comella4, Benjamin Woo5, Nasreen Rajani6, Erin Hanna7, Evan Elkins8, Marc Steinberg9 ...
    Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Making Media Work

    Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries

    by Derek Johnson, Derek Kompare, Avi Santo ...
    In popular culture, management in the media industry is frequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, and market researchers—“the suits”—who oppose the more productive forces of creative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversion of bureaucratic hierarchies. However, such portrayals belie the reality of how media management operates as a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Transgenerational Media Industries

    Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture

    by Derek Johnson ...
    Within corporate media industries, adults produce children’s entertainment. Yet children, presumed to exist outside the professional adult world, make their own contributions to it—creating and posting unboxing videos, for example, that provide content for toy marketers. Many adults, meanwhile, avidly consume entertainment products nominally meant for children. Media industries reincorporate this ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Making Media Work

    Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries

    Edited by Derek Johnson, Derek Kompare, Avi Santo ...
    Series Book 17 - Critical Cultural Communication
    The management and labor culture of the entertainment industry.In popular culture, management in the media industry isfrequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, andmarket researchers—“the suits”—who oppose the more productive forces ofcreative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversionof bureaucratic hierarchies. However, such portrayals ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Media Franchising

    Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries

    by Derek Johnson ...
    Series Book 11 - Postmillennial Pop
    "Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of the contemporary media industry."—Heather Hendershot, author of What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Parkinson's Disease: The True Story of a Powerful Life Transformation (Learn How to Reduce Symptoms Naturally Through Exercises and Alternative Medical Treatment)

    by Derek Johnson ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G ...

    Unabridged

    41 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book is the best solution amongst all other books on parkinson's disease because it addresses the emotional and psychological impact of the disease, as well as the physical symptoms.It offers practical advice on managing medications, dealing with healthcare providers, and coping with the day-to-day realities of living with parkinson's. But more ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Missionary and The Mercenary, The

    Right Questions. Better Future.

    by Arik Johnson, Derek Johnson ...
    Narrated by Arik Johnson, Derek Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 50 min

    Every day you walk the tightrope between idealism and pragmatism.Getting things done can mean compromising your principles. If you let it, the paralysis this tension creates will stop us from acting on the risks and opportunities that direct our future. And this problem is multiplied when working together in organizations where our values are diverse or even in conflict.We call these two mindsets ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Television Entertainment

    by Jonathan Gray ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with.But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Legitimating Television

    Media Convergence and Cultural Status

    by Michael Z Newman, Elana Levine ...
    Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD