As part of our mission, the Media Industries Project serves as a clearing house for media industries research. From the Field is your guide to the latest, most relevant scholarship from a range of disciplines and journals. For our guide to book titles, please see our companion series, The Bookshelf.
From the Field - Winter 2012
The Winter 2012 Edition of From the Field contains articles from TreaAndrea M. Russworm on the cultural renaissance of black-authored online content, Chuck Tryon on the competing distribution models of Red Box and Netflix, Patricia Phalen and Julia Osellame on the politics of the writers' room, Jean K. Chalaby on global television formats, and many more!
From the Field - Fall 2011
The Fall 2011 Edition of From the Field includes essays from Kristen Warner and Amy Long about Hollywood’s normative casting practices. Chuck Tryon examines distribution strategies for politically charged documentaries, and Richard Nowell questions popular assumptions about the audience for early teen slasher films.
From the Field - Summer 2011
The Summer 2011 edition of From the Field features analyses of international format exchange and remakes from Iain Robert Smith and Rashna Wadia Richards. For an examination of the partnership between HBO and Funny or Die, check out the analysis by Nick Marx. For more about Twitter's influence on mainstream news coverage, read Dhiraj Murthy's essay.
From the Field - Spring 2011
The Spring 2011 edition of From the Field includes Josh Heuman’s article on the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, Gabriel Alberto Moreno Esparza’s piece on the relationship between Televisa and Univision and Nodir Adilov’s research on the economics of cable programming tiers. Also in this edition, work from the International Journal of Cultural Studies including analysis of television format translation in Taiwan and China and the transnational audience for Tamil soap operas.
From the Field – Winter 2011
The Winter 2011 edition of From the Field features Bridget Conor’s discussion of the “Wellywood” labor dispute, Jayson Harsin’s analysis of Wikileaks and Sean Cubitt, Robert Hassan, and Ingrid Volkmer history of cloud computing. This edition also includes articles from Robin Mansell, Bart Cammaerts, Buck Clifford Rosenberg, discussing the relationship between neo-liberal discourse and media texts.
From the Field – Fall 2010
The Fall 2010 edition of From the Field highlights Ben Aslinger’s work on global gaming, Mikhail Koulikov on peer-to-peer media distribution and Mary Celeste Kearney on gender and media making technology. This edition also draws attention to media industries research on tax credits, conglomerate structure, corporate identity and content libraries featured in Volume 52 of Jump Cut.
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