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MICHAEL CURTIN is the Mellichamp Professor of Global Media in the Department of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics (Rutgers, 1996) and Playing to the World's Largest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV (2008), and the co-editor, with Lynn Spigel, of 'The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict' (1997) and, with Richard Ohmann, Gage Averill, David Shumway and Elizabeth Traube, of 'Making and Selling Culture' (1996).
JANE SHATTUCÂ is Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, Boston, USA. She has written primarily about American and European television industries and how their aesthetic and industrial forms relate to class and gender. Her books include: Television, Tabloids, Tears: Fassbinder and Popular Culture (1995) and The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women (1997). She co-edited Hop on Pop: the Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (2002) with Henry Jenkins and Tara McPherson.
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Series Editors: Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara and Paul McDonald, University of PortsmouthÂ
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Book Title: The American Television Industry
Authors: Michael Curtin, Jane Shattuc
Series Title: International Screen Industries
Publisher: British Film Institute London
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84457-575-6Published: 11 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 208
Topics: Film/TV Industry, Film and Television Studies, Media Research