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Media Franchising

Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvDerek Johnson

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"Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of the contemporary media industry."—Heather Hendershot, author of What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest While immediately recognizable throughout the U.S. and many other countries, media mainstays like X-Men, Star Trek, and Transformers achieved such familiarity through constant reincarnation. In each case, the initial success of a single product led to a long-term embrace of media franchising—a dynamic process in which media workers from different industrial positions shared in and reproduced familiar cultureacross television, film, comics, games, and merchandising. In Media Franchising, Derek Johnson examines the corporate culture behind these production practices, as well as the collaborative and creative efforts involved in conceiving, sustaining, and sharing intellectual properties in media work worlds. Challenging connotations of homogeneity, Johnson shows how the cultural and industrial logic of franchising has encouraged media industries to reimagine creativity as an opportunity for exchange among producers, licensees, and evenconsumers. Drawing on case studies and interviews with media producers, he reveals the meaningful identities, cultural hierarchies, and struggles for distinction that accompany collaboration within these production networks.Media Franchising provides a nuanced portrait of the collaborative cultural production embedded in both the mediaindustries and our own daily lives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-03-22
Mått153 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt586 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePostmillennial Pop
Antal sidor300
FörlagNew York University Press
ISBN9780814743478

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Acknowledgments Introduction: An Industrial Way of Life 1. Imagining the Franchise: Structures, Social Relations, and Cultural Work 2. From Ownership to Partnership: The Institutionalization of Franchise Relations 3. Sharing Worlds: Difference, Deference, and the Creative Context of Franchising 4. "A Complicated Genesis": Transnational Production and Transgenerational Marketing 5. Occupying Industries: The Collaborative Labor of Enfranchised Consumers Conclusion: Future Exchanges and Iterations Notes Index About the Author

"Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of the contemporary media industry." - Heather Hendershot,author of What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest "Media Franchising demonstrates that political economy and cultural studies can be systematically integrated, something many have called for but few have achieved as impressively as Derek Johnson. Building on an ideal mix of industrial, cultural, textual, and ethnographic research, Johnson pushes back against the popular view of franchises as monstrous, self-replicating programming bullies to show how contested and complex the industrial cultures are that now produce them. In this scheme, franchises are not the predictable top-down economic outcome of conglomeration, but rather a collective cultural solution to volatile economic and technological changes negotiated by cadres of largely anonymous contract media producers. Essential reading for anyone hoping to better understand the churning contemporary mediascape." - John T. Caldwell,author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television