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Corporations and cultural industries : Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation / Scott W. Fitzgerald.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical media studiesPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 455 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739144053
  • 0739144057
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Corporations and cultural industries.DDC classification:
  • 338.7610705
LOC classification:
  • HD9999.C9472 F585 2012eb
Online resources:
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.
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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.

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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