Envisioning media power
Subtitle: on capital and geographies of television
By: Brett Christophers.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780739123447; 9780739133101
Subjects: Television broadcasting -- Economic aspects
Description: "Envisioning Media Power develops an original geographical perspective on the nature and exercise of power in the international television economy, focusing on the UK and New Zealand markets, and on their respective relationships with the U.S. market and its globally-influential media corporations. In illuminating the fabric of television's international space economy, the book argues that power, knowledge and geography are inseparable not only from one another, but from the process of accumulation of media capital."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Knowing the television economy. Enframing creativity; title: Television's economy and the power of the geographical imagination; title: Knowledge travels; title: Conclusion to part I; title: Capitalizing and circulating power. Power, scarcity and a 'spatial fix'; title: Television's local power relations; title: Power and program pricing in international markets; title: Circuits of capital; title: Mirrors, meters and media power; title: Conclusion to part II; title: From space to place. Geopolitics; title: Putting television in its place; title: The political economy of place in programming; title: Conclusion to part III; title: Afterword: into the home of media power; title: Closing remarks.