Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries

by Avi Santo and Derek Kompare

Book Overview

The management and labor culture of the entertainment industry.
In popular culture, management in the media industry is
frequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, and
market researchers--"the suits"--who oppose the more productive forces of
creative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversion
of bureaucratic hierarchies. However, such portrayals belie the reality
of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814760996
• ISBN13: 9780814760994
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"