Product Description: The most widely used introduction to the Australian media, fully updated to reflect the increasing prominence of the internet in the communication and entertainment industries.

Product Description: A fully revised edition of the leading Australian introductory text on media studies, incorporating extensive analysis of the impact of communications.

Product Description: The term ‘two cultures’ was coined more than 50 years ago by scientist and novelist C.P. Snow to describe the divergence in the world views and methods of scientists and the creative sector. This divergence has meant that innovation systems and policies have focused for decades on science, engineering, technology and medicine and the industries that depend on them...read more

Product Description: Drawing on comparisons with historical shake-ups in the film industry, Screen Distribution Post-Hollywood offers a timely account of the changes brought about in global online distribution of film and television by major new players such as Google/YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo!, Facebook, Netflix and Hulu...read more

Product Description: Collecting important works from one of Australia's leading scholars of media, culture, and policy, this study brings sharper focus upon both historical and industrial contexts. Engaging with the global debate on multiethnic societies by focusing on creativity “at the margins,” this survey argues that industrial and social trends in media, communications, and culture are outstripping the academic frameworks that were erected to deal with them...read more

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Product Description: Floating Lives is a unique examination of media and communication within diasporic ethnic communities, using in-depth studies of some of Australia's main Asian diasporic groups: the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, and Thai communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a unique examination of media and communication within some of Australia's main Asian diasporic groups - the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, and Thai communities. Going beyond the conventional cross-cultural studies of mainstream media consumption, this book focuses on the ethnic community as a determining force in negotiating new hybrid identities and cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book addresses current debates about globalization and culture by tracing the emergence of Australia as a significant exporter of television to the world market. The authors investigate why Australian programs have found international popularity. The book describes the Australian industry and the international television marketplace. It also examines the impact of Australian programs on the television cultures of the importing countries. The authors outline policy implications and speculate on future directions of Australian television. (view table of contents)

Product Description: New Patterns in Global Television focuses upon the development of television industries in some of the countries outside the traditionally dominant centres. It challenges the view that "cultural imperialism" from powerful metropolitan centres dictates the supply of television programs and services in the world...read more

Product Description: Provides an introduction to the shape and style of Australian television in the 1980s, 1990s and beyond. Traditional formats like news, current affairs and sport as well as newer genres like tabloid and reality TV are treated in detail...read more

Product Description: How is contemporary culture “framed”—understood, promoted, dissected and defended— in the new approaches being employed in university education today? How do these approaches compare with those seen in the public policy process? What are the implications of these differences for future directions in theory, education, activism and policy? Framing Culture looks at cultural and media studies, which are rapidly growing fields through which students are introduced to contemporary cultural industries such as television, film and video...read more