Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy

by Vicki Mayer

Below the Line illuminates the hidden labor of people who not only produce things that the television industry needs, such as a bit of content or a policy sound bite, but also produce themselves in the service of capital expansion. Vicki Mayer considers the work of television set assemblers, soft-core cameramen, reality-program casters, and public-access and cable commissioners in relation to the globalized economy of the television industry. She...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350076
• ISBN13: 9780822350071
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"