Tom Havens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1253548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Havens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Havens |
| SIGNATURE | HAVENS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6874-6533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects: The case of Budapest, Hungary
This article uses the case of international media production in Budapest, Hungary, to think through how film and television locations get articulated to the spatial politics of Hungary’s government, which has grown increasingly illiberal since 2010 alongside an exploding international production sector. To date, most academic studies of location shooting have focused on either the use of locations by film and television producers, or the ways tha…
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production
Budapest, Hungary, has become one of the largest media production centers in Europe, even though the country has little local domestic production and few exports. Rather, nearly all production spending in Budapest comes from servicing foreign productions. This article explores the role that location managers in Budapest play in producing a recognizable sense of Budapest as a specific place, both on and behind the screen, in an effort to make the …
Netflix
Netflix’s branding strategies employ meaning hierarchies similar to broadcast-era television channels, due to shared tensions between their general entertainment appeals and their need for differentiation from competitors’ programming. Recent global expansion has led Netflix to complicate its brand hierarchies to promote itself and its programming in unfamiliar territories
Michael Lucken. The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
In The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory, Michael Lucken seeks to highlight “fruitful interactions between history and culture” (xiii) in examining Japan’s experience of war from 1937 through the postwar period. The book is a translation of the author’s Les Japonais et la guerre, 1937–1952 (2013), which aimed to offset the “relative lack of knowledge in France surrounding Japan’s wartime history.” Lucken wri…
Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Reviewed by: Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Tom Havens (bio) Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2015. xviii, 270 pages. $70.00, cloth; $22.95, paper; $22.95, E-book. This clearly written, wide-ranging book explores communicative opacity—“an absence of communication or mutual understanding” by individuals w…
Robert Stolz. Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950
Like Caesar's Gaul, Robert Stolz's Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950 is divided into three parts: intellectual history, environmental studies, and critical thought from Karl Marx to Harry D. Harootunian. The author aims to explore “Japan's environmental turn, a broad historical moment [at the end of the nineteenth century] when Japanese thinkers and activists experienced nature as alienated from themselves and were fo…
The Cosby Show, Family Themes, and the Ascent of White Situation Comedies Abroad in the Late 1980s
The Worldwide Circulation of Contemporary African American Television
Conclusion: Transnational Televisual Aesthetics and Global Discourses of Race
Roots and the Perils of African American Television Drama in a Global World
Black Television from Elsewhere: The Globalization of Non-U.S. Black Television
Integrated Eighties Situation Comedies and the Struggle against Apartheid
Introduction: African American Television Trade
Studying digital television: Two divergent approaches
Introduction: Popular Television in Central and Eastern Europe
Negotiating Values in the Creative Industries: Fairs, Festivals and Competitive Events
Fairs, festivals and competitive events play a crucial role in the creative industries; yet their significance has been largely overlooked. This book explores the role of such events through a series of studies that include some of the most iconic fairs and festivals in the world. It brings together a team of distinguished scholars to examine art fairs, biennales, auctions, book fairs, television programming markets, film festivals, animation fil…
The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation (review)
Reviewed by: The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation Tom Havens (bio) The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation. By Alice Y. Tseng. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2008. x, 285 pages. $60.00. Clearly written and handsomely produced, The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan examines the origins of four museum buildings sponsored by Japan's central government as elements of M…
Critical Media Industry Studies: A Research Approach
This article identifies the primary features of what we term "critical media industry studies," emphasizing midlevel fieldwork in examining media industries and delimiting new ways of understanding, conceiving, and studying media industries from a critical perspective. We provide a general framework for the nascent yet growing body of work that locates industry researh on particular organizations, agents, and practices within vast media conglomer…
The media were American: U.S. mass media in decline - by Jeremy Tunstall
Jeremy Tunstall’s The Media Were American: U.S. Mass Media in Declineprovides an encyclopedic study of mass media around the world. As the small change in verb tense since his 1977 The Media Are Americansuggests, Tunstall argues in this new volume that the worldwide influence of U.S. mass media peaked in the 1950s. In place of American media dominance, he sees the development of distinct regions within which media content and financing circulate:…
The hybrid grid: Globalization, cultural power and Hungarian television schedules
While television scheduling practices overdetermine a host of institutional and cultural practices, including program import decisions and the popularity of specific programs, scheduling has received scant attention from critical media scholars. Drawing on the insight that contemporary scheduling practices - like most media practices today - are hybrid phenomena, this article demonstrates in some detail the variety of factors, both foreign and do…
On Exhibiting Global Television: The Business and Cultural Functions of Global Television Fairs
Global television programming fairs (MIP-TV, MIPCOM, NATPE) have received little attention from media scholars. Nevertheless, as this article demonstrates, these fairs serve a variety of crucial business and cultural functions in international television trade. Although they have come under fire recently from executives and industry observers alike, this article argues that such fairs are semi-permanent features of the international syndication i…
"It's still a white world out there": The interplay of culture and economics in international television trade
Drawing on interviews with more than thirty international television executives from around the world, this article provides a case study of how distribution and acquisition practices in international television trade extract profit from television culture. While previous research in international television has tended to ignore or to oversimplify the importance of the distribution industry, this article demonstrates how studying distribution giv…
Subtitling Rap: Appropriating The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for Youthful Identity Formation in Kuwait
This article reports the findings of a pilot study of a single African-American situation comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, among a small number of young viewers in the nation of Kuwait. It is intended as a first step toward investigating the popularity of black and African-American youth styles among young people from various parts of the globe, and the conclusions that the author reaches are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive. …
The biggest show in the world: Race and the global popularity of The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show changed the face of international television distribution as profoundly as it altered American television culture. However, while many scholars have addressed the show's domestic popularity, its international acceptance remains a virtual mystery. This article investigates the various economic, textual and audience practices that led to The Cosby Show's international success, and that continue to make middle-class African American s…
"Total War and "Modernization
Critical Media Industry Studies: A Research Approach
This article identifies the primary features of what we term "critical media industry studies," emphasizing midlevel fieldwork in examining media industries and delimiting new ways of understanding, conceiving, and studying media industries from a critical perspective. We provide a general framework for the nascent yet growing body of work that locates industry researh on particular organizations, agents, and practices within vast media conglomer…
The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan
The hybrid grid: Globalization, cultural power and Hungarian television schedules
While television scheduling practices overdetermine a host of institutional and cultural practices, including program import decisions and the popularity of specific programs, scheduling has received scant attention from critical media scholars. Drawing on the insight that contemporary scheduling practices - like most media practices today - are hybrid phenomena, this article demonstrates in some detail the variety of factors, both foreign and do…
The biggest show in the world: Race and the global popularity of The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show changed the face of international television distribution as profoundly as it altered American television culture. However, while many scholars have addressed the show's domestic popularity, its international acceptance remains a virtual mystery. This article investigates the various economic, textual and audience practices that led to The Cosby Show's international success, and that continue to make middle-class African American s…
The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan During the Allied Occupation, 1945-1952
Six contributors discuss the state of Japanese arts during the allied occupation after the second World War. Topics include missteps by occupation censors, caution and experimentation on the part of nine artists of the era, the preservation of cultural property, and the conflicted roles of women and
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production
Budapest, Hungary, has become one of the largest media production centers in Europe, even though the country has little local domestic production and few exports. Rather, nearly all production spending in Budapest comes from servicing foreign productions. This article explores the role that location managers in Budapest play in producing a recognizable sense of Budapest as a specific place, both on and behind the screen, in an effort to make the …
Subtitling Rap: Appropriating The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for Youthful Identity Formation in Kuwait
This article reports the findings of a pilot study of a single African-American situation comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, among a small number of young viewers in the nation of Kuwait. It is intended as a first step toward investigating the popularity of black and African-American youth styles among young people from various parts of the globe, and the conclusions that the author reaches are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive. …
On Review of Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan
Editorial| May 01 1984 On Review of Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan Tom Havens Tom Havens Connecticut College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 499. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800071588 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sear…
Group Psychology of the Japanese in Wartime
Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography
Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle
Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945
Introduction * The End of the Pacific War * Political Developments After Independence * Foreign Relations * Economic Developments * Social Conditions * Education * Intellectual and Cultural Developments * From Showa to Heisei
Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View
The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan During the Allied Occupation, 1945-1952
Six contributors discuss the state of Japanese arts during the allied occupation after the second World War. Topics include missteps by occupation censors, caution and experimentation on the part of nine artists of the era, the preservation of cultural property, and the conflicted roles of women and
The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan
Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry
The biggest show in the world: Race and the global popularity of The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show changed the face of international television distribution as profoundly as it altered American television culture. However, while many scholars have addressed the show's domestic popularity, its international acceptance remains a virtual mystery. This article investigates the various economic, textual and audience practices that led to The Cosby Show's international success, and that continue to make middle-class African American s…
"Total War and "Modernization
Subtitling Rap: Appropriating The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for Youthful Identity Formation in Kuwait
This article reports the findings of a pilot study of a single African-American situation comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, among a small number of young viewers in the nation of Kuwait. It is intended as a first step toward investigating the popularity of black and African-American youth styles among young people from various parts of the globe, and the conclusions that the author reaches are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive. …
"It's still a white world out there": The interplay of culture and economics in international television trade
Drawing on interviews with more than thirty international television executives from around the world, this article provides a case study of how distribution and acquisition practices in international television trade extract profit from television culture. While previous research in international television has tended to ignore or to oversimplify the importance of the distribution industry, this article demonstrates how studying distribution giv…
On Exhibiting Global Television: The Business and Cultural Functions of Global Television Fairs
Global television programming fairs (MIP-TV, MIPCOM, NATPE) have received little attention from media scholars. Nevertheless, as this article demonstrates, these fairs serve a variety of crucial business and cultural functions in international television trade. Although they have come under fire recently from executives and industry observers alike, this article argues that such fairs are semi-permanent features of the international syndication i…
The hybrid grid: Globalization, cultural power and Hungarian television schedules
While television scheduling practices overdetermine a host of institutional and cultural practices, including program import decisions and the popularity of specific programs, scheduling has received scant attention from critical media scholars. Drawing on the insight that contemporary scheduling practices - like most media practices today - are hybrid phenomena, this article demonstrates in some detail the variety of factors, both foreign and do…
The media were American: U.S. mass media in decline - by Jeremy Tunstall
Jeremy Tunstall’s The Media Were American: U.S. Mass Media in Declineprovides an encyclopedic study of mass media around the world. As the small change in verb tense since his 1977 The Media Are Americansuggests, Tunstall argues in this new volume that the worldwide influence of U.S. mass media peaked in the 1950s. In place of American media dominance, he sees the development of distinct regions within which media content and financing circulate:…
Critical Media Industry Studies: A Research Approach
This article identifies the primary features of what we term "critical media industry studies," emphasizing midlevel fieldwork in examining media industries and delimiting new ways of understanding, conceiving, and studying media industries from a critical perspective. We provide a general framework for the nascent yet growing body of work that locates industry researh on particular organizations, agents, and practices within vast media conglomer…
The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation (review)
Reviewed by: The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation Tom Havens (bio) The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation. By Alice Y. Tseng. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2008. x, 285 pages. $60.00. Clearly written and handsomely produced, The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan examines the origins of four museum buildings sponsored by Japan's central government as elements of M…
Negotiating Values in the Creative Industries: Fairs, Festivals and Competitive Events
Fairs, festivals and competitive events play a crucial role in the creative industries; yet their significance has been largely overlooked. This book explores the role of such events through a series of studies that include some of the most iconic fairs and festivals in the world. It brings together a team of distinguished scholars to examine art fairs, biennales, auctions, book fairs, television programming markets, film festivals, animation fil…
Studying digital television: Two divergent approaches
Introduction: Popular Television in Central and Eastern Europe
The Cosby Show, Family Themes, and the Ascent of White Situation Comedies Abroad in the Late 1980s
The Worldwide Circulation of Contemporary African American Television
Conclusion: Transnational Televisual Aesthetics and Global Discourses of Race
Roots and the Perils of African American Television Drama in a Global World
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