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    (representing a selected list of publications from the last three years)

    Television Industries: Selected Books

    Alt-text: Book cover images for five books including Baker, Balanzategui, and Sanders' with an abstract red, blue and yellow geometric pattern bracketting the title; Beltrán’s with a white cover and green and black text; Carlson and Perdiago's with white and yellow text over a dark green abstract background; Cohn and Porst’s with yellow and white text over a partial image of a tube television display of a grainy TV image of a man on a couch; and Doyle, Paterson, and Barr's with black text on a yellow and abstract light-colored background.

    Baker, Djoymi, Jessica Balanzategui, and Diana Sandars. Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing: Family Watch Together TV. Routledge, 2023.

    Beltrán, Mary. Latino TV: A History. New York University Press, 2022.

    Carlson, Ashley Lynn and Lisa K. Perdigao, eds. The CW Comes of Age: Essays on Programming, Branding and Evolution. McFarland, 2022.

    Cohn, Jonathan and Jennifer Porst, eds. Very Special Episodes: Televising Industrial and Social Change. Rutgers University Press, 2021.

    Doyle, Gillian, Richard Paterson, and Kenny Barr. Television Production in Transition: Independence, Scale, Sustainability and the Digital Challenge. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for five books including Fortmueller's with white and yellow text on an orange background including a director's chair with a mask hanging from it; Friedman and Keeler's with a black background and white and yellow text and a woman sitting pensively in a car; Hogg's with white text on red overlaid over a still from Bridgerton; Johnson’s with a blurred photo of a person in front of television displaying apps and other media images; and Kääpä and Vaughan's with white text on blue overtop a photograph of a solar power farm;

    Fortmueller, Kate. Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID. University of Texas Press, 2021.

    Friedman, Seth and Amanda Keeler, eds. Prestige Television: Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America. Rutgers University Press, 2023.

    Hogg, Christopher. Adapting Television Drama: Theory and Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

    Johnson, Derek, ed. From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels. Second edition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022.

    Kääpä, Pietari and Hunter Vaughan, eds. Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis: Towards a Greener Screen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

    Alt-text: Klein's with diagonal multicolor stripes on a black background interspersed with MTV stills; Lin's with black text on a yellow and abstract light-colored background; Lotz’s with red and black text on a white background below an image of a laptop with theater seats for keys; Lotz and Lobato’s with red, green and black text on a cyan background with an abstract image of a globe in the foreground bearing a red triangular "play" icon; and Lyons and Tzioumakis' with white text over a photograph of a person wearing an orange television set on their head.

    Klein, Amanda Ann. Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming. Duke University Press, 2021.

    Lin, Lisa. Convergent Chinese Television Industries: An Ethnography of Chinese Production Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

    Lotz, Amanda D. Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand. Polity, 2022.

    Lotz, Amanda D. and Ramon Lobato, eds. Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders. New York University Press, 2023.

    Lyons, James and Yannis Tzioumakis, eds. Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics and Medium Specificity. Routledge, 2023.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for five books including Martin's with a black silhouette coming through a door into a rainbow prism; McNutt’s with black and blue text on a white center tile overlaid on an abstract multicolor mottled background; Mehta's with a photograph of an Indian man and woman displayed normally and in an upside down reflection; Ng's with rainbow stripes descending the cover on a dark background; Ogola's with black text overlaid on an abstract photograph of sunlight through a window.

    Martin, Alfred L., Jr. The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom. Indiana University Press, 2021.

    McNutt, Myles. Television’s Spatial Capital: Location, Relocation, Dislocation. Routledge, 2021.

    Mehta, Smith. The New Screen Ecology in India. Bloomsbury, 2024.

    Ng, Eve. Mainstreaming Gays: Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television. Rutgers University Press, 2023.

    Ogola, George, ed. The Future of Television in the Global South: Reflections from Selected Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for five books including Porst's with text inside the screen of a small vintage television set; Sienkiewicz and Marx's with black and white text on a light blue background and a diagram with parts of a media news cycle; Smith-Shomade's with white text over a photograph of two Black children lying on a green carpet looking up at an offscreen television; Svartman's with black text on a white background and a small band of colors at the top; and Weber's with white text and a small red insert over a black and white photograph of people in a video recording studio.

    Porst, Jennifer. Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films on Early TV. Rutgers University Press, 2021.

    Sienkiewicz, Matt and Nick Marx. That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them. University of California Press, 2022.

    Smith-Shomade, Beretta E., ed. Watching While Black Rebooted!: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences. Rutgers University Press, 2023.

    Svartman, Rosane. Telenovelas and Transformation: Saving Brazil’s Television Industry. Routledge, 2021.

    Weber, Anne-Katrin. Television before TV: New Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939. Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

    Television Industries: Selected Journal Articles and Chapters

    Becker, Christine. “The Adaptive Marketing of Penny Dreadful: Listening to The Dreadfuls.” In Penny Dreadful and Adaptation: Reanimating and Transforming the Monster, eds. Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel, 31-47. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

    Buehler, Branden. “Independent Sports Television in the Networked Era.” Television & New Media 23:4 (2021): 352–367.

    Brown, Cameron Lynn. “Residual Fandom: Television Technologies, Industries, and Fans of Survivor.” The Velvet Light Trap 90 (2022): 17–27.

    Choi, Joonseok. “Global TV Markets and Digital Distribution.” In Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines, eds. Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, and Timothy Havens, 202–21. New York University Press, 2021.

    Galt, Frances C. “Researching Around Our Subjects: Working Towards a Women’s Labour History of Trade Unions in the British Film and Television Industries.” Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media 20 (2021): 166–188.

    Grossaug, Ranit. “Technological Developments and Transitions in Israel’s Preschool Television Industry.” Television & New Media 22:6 (2021): 654–670.

    Higueras-Ruiz, María-José, Francisco Javier Gómez-Pérez, and Jordi Alberich-Pascual. “The Showrunner’s Skills and Responsibilities in the Creation and Production Process of Fiction Series in the Contemporary North American Television Industry.” Communication & Society 34: 4 (2021): 185–200.

    Huelin, Toby. “‘How the Music was Made’: Television, Musicology and BBC Four.” Critical Studies in Television 17:2 (2022): 194–200.

    Jeong, Seung-hoon. “The Convoluted Cinematic Experience in the Age of Netflix.” New Review of Film and Television Studies (2022), online.

    Johnson, Jr., Michael. “Hollywood Survival Strategies in the Post-COVID 19 Era.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:100 (2021).

    King, Dewitt. “Grappling with the Digital: The New Industrial Geographies of Professional Wrestling.” American Quarterly 75:3 (September 2023): 589-608.

    Lotz, Amanda D. “Media Circulation: Reconceptualizing Television Distribution and Exhibition.” In Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines, eds. Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, and Timothy Havens, 47–66. New York University Press, 2021.

    Mehta, Smith. “Where are the Women? Gendered Indian Digital Production Cultures Post #metoo.” Television & New Media 24:7 (December 2022): 770-90.

    Newman, Kathy M. "Union Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Television and Labor in the Age of Streaming." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 20:2 (2023): 128-143.

    Perren, Alisa. “From Dawn Till Dusk: El Rey Network and the Evolution of Cable Television in the 2010s.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 63:2 (Summer 2021): 213-32.

    Sakr, Naomi and Jeanette Steemers. “Children’s Television in an Era of Digital Distribution: Arab and European Responses.” In Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines, eds. Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, and Timothy Havens, 222–41. New York University Press, 2021.

    Swords, Jon, and Jennifer Johns. “Deepening Precarity–the Impact of COVID-19 on Freelancers in the UK Television Industry.” Cultural Trends (2023): 1–17.

    Vesey, Alyxandra. “‘Have You Got Any Soul?’: Reinterpreting High Fidelity’s relationship to Black Cultural Production.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 21:4 (2023): 1-24.

    Wayne, Michael L. “Netflix Audience Data, Streaming Industry Discourse, and the Emerging Realities of ‘Popular’ Television.” Media, Culture & Society 44:2 (2022): 193–209.

    Television Industries: Podcasts and Video Essays by or Featuring Film and Media Scholars

    Bohlmann, Garrett. “The 2023 Writers Strike; Plus, Concerns Over the Future of AI.” Houston Public Media, May 19, 2023.

    "Ep. 68: Talking to the Press about the Hollywood Labor Strikes." Aca-Media (September 2023).

    Limorenko, Galina. "Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, ‘When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today’ (Harper, 2021).” New Books in Film (June 2022).

    O'Brien, Dave. "Alfred L. Martin, Jr., ‘The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom’ (Indiana UP, 2021).” New Books in Film (April 2021).

    O'Brien, Dave. “Annie Berke, ‘Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television’ (U California Press, 2022).” New Books in Film (April 2022).

    Poe, Marshall. “Amanda D. Lotz, ‘Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars’ (MIT Press, 2021).” New Books in Film (April 2022).

    Poe, Marshall. “Frances Galt, ‘Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries’ (Bristol UP, 2020).” New Books in Film (March 2021).

    "Presenting the Past, Episode 4: Broadcasting in the Public Interest." Aca-Media (September 2021).

    Sinha, Priyam. "Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)." New Books in Film (October 2023).

    "Talking Television in a Time of Crisis" (16-part series). Aca-Media (2020-2021).

    Tscherne, Joel. "Kate Fortmueller, ‘Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production’ (U Texas Press, 2021)." New Books in Film (November 2021).

    “Webinar: Hollywood on Strike!” Film Quarterly (August 11, 2023).

    “Webinar: Reconsidering Binge-Watching in the Age of Covid-19.” Film Quarterly (November 7, 2021).

    Television Industries: Public Writing Online by Film and Media Scholars

    Arditi, David. “Actors are demanding that Hollywood catch up with technological changes in a sequel to a 1960 strike.” The Conversation, July 17, 2023.

    Banks, Miranda and Kate Fortmueller. "Unity will determine if the Hollywood writers strike is successful." The Washington Post, June 22, 2023.

    Brownell, Kathryn Cramer. "Propaganda, Outrage, and Entertainment." The Los Angeles Review of Books, August 23, 2023.

    Connor, J.D. "Things Will Get Shittier: AI and the Dial of Business Basiness." The Los Angeles Review of Books, July 22, 2023.

    Feiereisen, Stephanie, Cristel Antonia Russell, Dina Rasolofoarison, and Hope Schau. "From speed viewing to watching the end first: how streaming has changed the way we consume TV." The Conversation, January 5, 2022.

    Fortmueller, Kate. "The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds." The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 19, 2023.

    Glick, Joshua. "Studio Branding in the Streaming Wars." The Los Angeles Review of Books, June 24, 2021.

    Joy, Vaughn. "The WGA strike is part of a recurring pattern when technology changes." The Washington Post, May 30, 2023.

    Potter, Anna and Amanda Lotz. “Fewer episodes, more foreign owners: the incredible shrinking of Australian TV drama.” The Conversation, August 23, 2021.

    Raalte, Christa van, and Richard Wallis. "Russell Brand allegations are leading to renewed scrutiny of the endemic bullying and harassment in the TV industry." The Conversation, September 21, 2023.

    Warner, Kristen. "Blue Skies Again: Streamers and the Impossible Promise of Diversity." The Los Angeles Review of Books, June 24, 2021.