Recent Books on the Media Industries (2013-present)

Media Industries Books, 2013-2015

This list consists of an updated list of recently published books related to the media industries (compiled for my class for a book review assignment, but perhaps of interest to others.) In an effort to be as expansive as possible, I have included everything from scholarly manuscripts to introductory textbooks to popular/crossover publications. 

 

Have any suggestions for additions or changes to the list? Please let me know: aperren at austin dot utexas dot edu.

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• Alan Albarran, The Social Media Industries (2013)
• Chris Anderton, Andrew Dubber, and Martin James, Understanding the Music Industries (2013)
• Mark Andrejevic, Infoglut: How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know (2013)
• Ben Aslinger and Nina Huntemann, eds., Gaming Globally: Production, Play and Place (2013)
• Tino Balio, Hollywood in the New Millennium (2013)
• Mark Banks, Rosalind Gill, and Stephanie Taylor, eds., Theorizing Cultural Work: Labour, Continuity, and Change in the Cultural and Creative Industries (2013)
• Miranda J. Banks, The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild (2015)
• James Bennett and Niki Strange, eds., Media Independence: Working with Freedom or Working for Free? (2014)
• Mark Bernard, Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film (2014)
• Dolores Ines Casillas, Sounds of Belonging: US Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy (2014)
• Bridget Conor, Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice (2014)
• Bridget Conor, Rosalind Gill, and Stephanie Taylor, Gender and Creative Labour (2015)
• Susan Crawford, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age (2013)
• Stuart Cunningham, Hidden Innovation: Policy, Industry, and the Creative Sector (2013)
• Michael Curtin, Jennifer Holt, and Kevin Sanson, eds., Distribution Revolution: Conversations about the Future of Film and Television (2014)
•  Rosamund Davies and Gauti Sigthorsson, Introducing the Creative Industries: From Theory to Practice (2013)
• Arlene Davila and Yeidy Rivero, eds., Contemporary Latina/o Media: Production, Circulation, Politics (2014)
• Aeron Davis, Promotional Cultures: The Rise and Spread of Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing, and Branding (2013)
• Dean J DeFino, The HBO Effect (2013)
• Winston Wheeler Dixon, Streaming: Movies, Media, and Instant Access (2013)
• Brooke Duffy, Remake, Remodel: Women’s Magazines in the Digital Age (2013)
• Anita Elberse, Blockbusters: Hit-Making, Risk-Taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment (2013)
• Christian Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction (2014)
• Jennifer Gillan, Television Brandcasting (2014)
• Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot, eds., Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (2014)
• Nitin Govil, Orienting Hollywood: A Century of Film Culture Between Hollywood and Bombay (2015)
• Hilary Hallet, Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood (2013)
• Blake Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (2014)
•  Jonathan Hardy, Critical Political Economy of the Media (2014)
• John Hartley, et al., Key Concepts in Creative Industries (2013)
• Tim Havens, Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe (2013)
• Daniel Herbert, Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store (2014)
• David Hesmondhalgh, Cultural Industries (3^rd ed., 2013)
• Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson, eds., Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming, and Sharing Culture in the Digital Age (2014)
•  Eric Hoyt, Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries Before Home Video (2014)
•  Jeremy Hunsinger and Teresa M. Senft, eds., The Social Media Handbook (2013)
• Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford and Joshua Green, eds., Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (2013)
• Derek Johnson, Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries (2013)
• Derek Johnson, Derek Kompare, and Avi Santo, eds., Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries
• Dal Yong Jin, De-Convergence of Global Media Industries (2013)
• Peter Lev, Twentieth Century-Fox: The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935-1965 (2013)

• Andrew Leyshon, Reformatted: Code, Networks, and the Transformation of the Music Industry (2014)

• Kristin Lieb, Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry (2013)
• Cynthia Littleton, TV On Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War on the Internet (2013)
• Amanda Lotz, The Television Will Be Revolutionized (2^nd ed., 2014)
•  Jennifer Smith Maguire and Julian Matthews, eds., The Cultural Intermediaries Reader (2014)
• Denise Mann, ed., Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future (2014)
• Alice Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, & Branding in the Social Media Age (2013)
• Matthew McAllister and Emily West, eds., The Routledge Companion of Advertising and Promotional Culture (2014)
• Robert McChesney, Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy (2013)
• Lerone A. Martin, Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion (2014)
• Paul McDonald, Hollywood Stardom (2013)
• Ross Melnick, American Showman: Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935 (2014)
• Cynthia Meyers, A Word From Our Sponsor: Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio (2014)
• Tanner Mirrlees, Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization (2013)
• Albert Moran, TV Format Mogul: Reg Grundy’s Transnational Career (2013)
• Vincent Mosco, To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World (2014)
•  Philip Napoli, ed., Media Diversity and Localism (2013)
•  Sunetra Sen Narayan, Globalization and Television: A Study of the Indian Experience, 1990-2010 (2014)
• Randy Nichols, The Video Game Business (2014)
•  Casey O’Donnell, Developer’s Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators (2014)
• Sherry B. Ortner, Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream (2013)
• Roberta Pearson and Marie Messenger Davies, Star Trek and American Television (2014)
• Anne Helen Petersen, Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of Cinema (2014)
• Sandra Ponzanesi, The Postcolonial Cultural Industry: Markets, Mythologies (2014)
• Aswin Punathambekar, From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (2013)
•  Eva Redvall, Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark: From The Kingdom to The Killing (2013)
•  Jim Rogers, The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age (2013)
• Avi Santo, Selling the Silver Bullet: The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing (2015)
•  Dan Schiller, Digital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis (2014)
• Trebor Scholz, ed., Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory (2013)
•  John Sinclair and Joe Straubhaar, Latin American Television Industries (2013)
• Michael Glover Smith and Adam Selzer, Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry (2015)
• Andrew Spicer, Anthony McKenna, and Christopher Meir, eds., Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television (2014)
• Petr Szczpanek and Patrick Vonderau, eds., Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures (2014)
• Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age (2014)
• Anne Thompson, The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System (2014)
•  Joseph Turow, The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth (2013)
• Chuck Tryon, On-Demand Culture: Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies (2013)
• Matt Stahl, Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work (2013)
•  Jose Van Dijck, The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media (2013)
•  Travis Vogan, Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media (2014)
•  Peter Zackariasson and Timothy Wilson, eds., The Video Game Industry: Formation, Present State, and Future (2014)