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Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation

Scott Fitzgerald

This book provides an introduction to the political economy of international media corporations. The author focuses on the growth of three specific media conglomerates: Time Warner, Bertelsmann and News Corporation.

Adopting an approach rooted in critical political economy, the book explains the corporations’ growth through an engagement with broader social theories: the wider conditions of capital accumulation (especially theories of corporate competition and financialization); issues of institutional logic and corporate strategies; and the role of states as regulators, mediators of opposed interests, and facilitators of corporate expansion.

By analyzing the specifics and complexities of different media industries, Corporations and Cultural Industries examines how financialization processes re-gear the internal operations of media corporations in a manner that pits one sector against another. This book provides an in-depth study that can be used as stand-alone teaching resources or as a valuable supplement to a variety of media courses.

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