You'll see that my definition of both "industry" and "recent" is a bit loose (some books below were published about five years ago, and thus wouldn't be considered viable for actual publication). Nonetheless, I think this is a useful exercise to undertake. I have included both trade and academic publications on this list as well.
I am not aware of a place online where book-length publications on the media industries are located -- if you do know of a place, please let me know! The most recent list I have seen is Jason Mittell's on Amazon, which is quite helpful but a few years old at this point.
I hope that you will add suggestions of other books to this comments section -- I am sure I have missed many titles, and would love to continue to build this list as an online resource. At some point I will try to create a separate Amazon list as well.
It is exciting to see so much compelling work coming out these days!
- Chris Anderson, Free: The Future of a Radical Price
- Ken Auletta, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
- Robert Babe, Cultural Studies and Political Economy: Toward a New Integration
- Doris Baltruschacht, Global Media Ecologies: Networked Production in Film and Television (forthcoming)
- Sarah Banet-Weiser, Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship
- Christine Becker, It’s the Pictures that Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television
- Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks
- Alex Ben Block and Lucy Autrey Wilson, George Lucas's Blockbusting
- Georgina Born, Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC
- Megan Brown, The Cultural Work of Corporations
- John Caldwell, Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film & TV
- Bill Carter, Desperate Networks
- Michael Curtin, Playing to the World’s Biggest Audience: Globalization of Chinese Film & TV
- Michael Curtin and Jane Shattuc, The American Television Industry
- Suzanne Daniels and Cynthia Littleton, Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN
- Mark Deuze, Media Work
- Mara Einstein, Media Diversity: Economics, Ownership and the FCC
- Edward Jay Epstein, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Reality Behind the Movies
- Des Freedman, The Politics of Media Policy
- Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?
- John Hartley, editor, Creative Industries
- Timothy Havens, Global Television Marketplace
- David Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural Industries (2nd ed)
- Jeffrey Hirschberg, ed, The Business of Entertainment (three volume set)
- Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald and Ava Seave, The Curse of the Mogul
- Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture
- Eric Klinenberg, Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media
- Derek Kompare, Rerun Nation
- William Kunz, Culture Conglomerates: Consolidation in the Motion Picture and TV Industries
- Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Culture Thrive in a Hybrid Economy
- Amanda Lotz, The Television Will Be Revolutionized
- Amanda Lotz, editor, Beyond Prime Time
- Alison Macor, Chainsaws, Slackers and Spykids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas
- Denise Mann, Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover
- Grant McCracken, Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation
- Paul McDonald, Video and DVD Industries
- Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko, eds, The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry
- Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, Ting Wang and Richard Maxwell, Global Hollywood 2
- Jon Reiss, Thinking Outside the Box Office: The Ultimate Guide to Film Distribution and Marketing in the Digital Era
- Barbara Selznick, Global Television: Co-Producing Culture
- Shawn Shimpach, Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero
- Beretta Smith-Shomade, Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy: Selling Black Entertainment Television
- Lynn Spigel, TV By Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television
- David Suisman, Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
- Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood
- Serra Tinic, On Location: Canada’s Television Industry in a Global Market
- Chuck Tryon, Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence
- Joseph Turow, Niche Envy
- Siva Vaidnyathan, The Anarchist in the Library
- Patrik Wikstrom, The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud
- Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet – and How to Stop It
- David Croteau and William Hoynes, The Business of Media (2nd edition)
- Jennifer Holt and Alisa Perren, eds., Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method
- Michele Hilmes, Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable
- Tom Kemper, Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents
- Vicki Mayer, Miranda J. Banks and John Thornton Caldwell, eds., Production Studies: Cultural Studies of the Media Industries
- Paul Grainge, Brand Hollywood: Selling Entertainment in a Global Media Age
- Charles Acland, Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes and Global Culture
- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
- Stephen Kline, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig De Peuter, Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture and Marketing
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