Making Media Work Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries

"Making Media Work marks a distinctive intervention in the study of management in the media industries. Drawing from a variety of perspectives and incorporating rare insights from industry insiders, this book promises to be highly influential for media scholars, providing a useful framework and extended focus on the work of intermediaries. A terrific book." - Alisa Perren,author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s "This collection by academics and researcherschallenges the traditional and often stereotypical imagery of the entertainment and media industrys management ethos across a range of media forms, from film and television to video games and social media. With an interdisciplinary emphasis on configuration theory and organizational sociology, the books13 chapters provide an intimate insight and perspective on the industrys administrative leadership and its operations management.Summing Up: Recommended." (Choice) "The volume speaks to a growing number of media researchers and students interested in the transformation of media labor and workplace politics in the making of media contents." (Cultural Sociology)