Product Description: Covering all the major areas of television production, this in-depth work highlights the widely varying influences, difficulties and opportunities at work in the industry. Each kind of producer across the seven areas here examined faces the same practical issues of budget, talent and equipment resources, and end-product expectations; however, the self-image of the producers and the creative environment in which they work can differ greatly from one programming sector to the next, and whilst their careers may run parallel they are usually cut off from one another ideologically...read more

An account of how a few very powerful individuals come to wield control in international communications. The politics, eccentricities and industrial alliances of the moguls, including Maxwell and Murdoch are analyzed in detail.

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Product Description: This book examines British national newspapers after the 1986 "Death of Fleet Street" triggered by Rupert Murdoch. Since then competition has intensified with more titles, fatter papers, more sections, and aggressive marketing. Newspaper Power is based on 200 interviews with senior newspaper people in the 1990s...read more

Product Description: Book by Palmer, Michael, Tunstall, Jeremy

The collected readings provide an introduction to important debates in sociological theory and research

Analyzes the communications policies of the United States and examines the effects of deregulation on the future of telecommunications and the media

Takes a close look at California's influence on American television, radio, movies, journalism, and politics

Product Description: library copy