Michael Curtin
Biographic Data
| ID | 160641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Curtin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtin |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2152-7501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Understanding What Older People Value in the Design of a Community‐Based Healthy Ageing Program, a Qualitative Study
Older people who are wanting to support their own ability to age well may benefit from attending community‐based group programs. However, many of these programs are designed and implemented by health professionals without direct input from older people, which may limit the opportunity to ensure such programs are authentically meeting the needs of this population group. A qualitative approach, using an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA…
The Perceived Impact of the Intergenerational Component of an Ageing Well Program
This paper investigates the perceived impact of the intergenerational component of an Ageing Well Program from the perspectives of the older adult and university student participants. An interpretative phenomenological analysis approach was used, with data being collected via semi-structured interviews. Seven older adults and six students who participated in the most recent program were interviewed. "Forming Connections," "Getting to Know the Old…
Post Americana: Twenty-First Century Media Globalization
This article shows how neoliberal deregulation, speculation, and financialization unleashed the unfathomable potential of global media, thereby disrupting prior assumptions about the scope, scale, and practices of media industries. After almost a century of American hegemony, the topographies of media industries are today growing more plastic and complicated as media institutions scale their ambitions and operations in an increasingly porous and …
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and chal…
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
In most parts of the world, screen media workers—actors, directors, gaffers, and makeup artists—consider Hollywood to be glamorous and aspirational. If given the opportunity to work on a major studio lot, many would make the move, believing the standards of professionalism are high and the history of accomplishment is renowned. Moreover, as a global leader, Hollywood offers the chance to rub shoulders with talented counterparts and network with a…
On Public Imagination
In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholars, activists, journalists, and public figures deliberate about the creative and critical potential of public imagination in an era paradoxically marked by intensifying globalization and resurgent nationalism. Divided into five sections, these essays explore the social, political, and cultural role of imagination and civic engagement, offering cogent, ingenious reflections that stan…
Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood
Motion pictures are made , not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality—all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood’s craft and creative workers. The interviews collected here showcase the pleasures that attract people to careers in film and television. They also reflect critically on changes in the workplace brought about by corporate conglomeration and globalization. Rather than o…
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
"Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies …
Regulating the global infrastructure of film labor exploitation
Confronted by media globalization, many governments have expressed concern about the productive capacity of domestic screen media institutions that are aiming to sustain the allegiances of resident populations. Policymakers are furthermore aware that creative labor is now widely perceived as a resource worth cultivating for its perceived benefits as a catalyst to economic innovation and productivity. In fear of being left behind, countries with e…
What makes them willing collaborators? The global context of Chinese motion picture co-productions
Market access is becoming the single most significant factor affecting collaborations between Hollywood feature film producers and their Chinese partners. The current import quota system approves only 34 films each year, which are then distributed by the state-run China Film Group, which also controls the release date for each title. The best way for a foreign filmmaker to manage these uncertainties is to fashion a co-production deal with a mainl…
Chinese Cinema Cities: From the Margins to the Middle Kingdom
Hollywood in China
Media policy in the 21st century: From national interest to cultural stewardship
This essay provides a framework for understanding the twenty-first century dynamics of the global media economy. It has four central objectives: (1) explain the fundamental shift in media regulation engendered by neo-liberal globalization; (2) describe the operations of transnational commercial media enterprises and show how their practices and protocols have affected media institutions at the local, national, and regional levels; (3) identify is…
A Vanishing Piece of the Pi: The Globalization of Visual Effects Labor
Digital visual effects (VFX) now comprise one-third of total production spending on major feature film releases. They also are a significant and growing component of production budgets for television programming and commercials. Yet, despite the rising status of VFX, this sector of the media business has been in turmoil for over a decade, a situation made palpable by recurring waves of bankruptcies and layoffs, most notably including Rhythm & Hue…
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict
Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television …
The rise of the Korean cinema in inbound and outbound globalization
It is common for media globalization to be characterized as the erosion of national cultural sovereignty under the onslaught of the world's largest media conglomerates. Such portrayals evoke the specter of a hydra-headed Hollywood juggernaut spreading its tentacles into every corner of the globe. This macro level analysis of media imperialism directs attention to a worldwide system of domination that favors capitalist interests, particularly thos…
Chinese media and globalization
Keywords: Chinesemediaglobal studiesglobalizationtransnational
Women and Traumatic Brain Injury: “It's not visible damage”
With advances in medical technology, more people are surviving major trauma experiences. Those with a traumatic brain injury are one such group who may survive for several decades with significant health consequences including physical, cognitive, and psychosocial sequelae. Traumatic brain injury sufferers are typically young males with a premorbid history of risk taking. Consequently, the differential needs of female traumatic brain injury survi…
Comparing media capitals: Hong Kong and Mumbai
Traumatic Brain Injury, Participation, and Rural Identity
In this article we focus on participation following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in rural and regional Australian contexts, asking how aspects of rurality, such as place identity and rural belonging, impact on participation for the individual living with TBI. We found a preference for country living, despite disadvantages including distance from services and lack of anonymity. A rural identity provides access to an enabling narrative, the "rural …
The American Television Industry
Introduction 1 Key Players 2 Audiences and Advertising 3 Television Programming 4 Making TV on the Broadcast Networks 5 Branded Cable Networks 6 The New Economies of TV Information Conclusion Bibliography Index
Created in China: The Great New Leap Forward . Michael Keane
Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV
In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980s have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, the escalation of democracy movements, and the emergence of an East Asian youth culture. Reaching beyond national …
Murdoch’s dilemma, or ‘What’s the price of TV in China?’
Satellite television figures prominently in scholarly speculation about globalization, since it has the potential to cross boundaries of class, gender, ethnicity and literacy, in addition to nation. Scholars furthermore suggest that satellite TV moves audiences towards a shared repertoire of images and ideas, thereby encouraging modernization and reflexive forms of representative government. Such lofty speculation fails, however, to take into acc…
Media Capitals: Cultural Geographies of Global TV
Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV
In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980s have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, the escalation of democracy movements, and the emergence of an East Asian youth culture. Reaching beyond national …
Mail Surveys for Election Forecasting? An Evaluation of the Columbus Dispatch Poll
Journal Article MAIL SURVEYS FOR ELECTION FORECASTING? AN EVALUATION OF THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH POLL Get access PENNY S. VISSER, PENNY S. VISSER PENNY s. VISSER is a doctoral candidate in the department of psychology at Ohio State University and JON A. KROSNICK is an associate professor in the departments of psychology and political science at Ohio State University, JESSE MARQUETTE is a professor of political science and director of the Survey Rese…
Media Capital: Towards the Study of Spatial Flows
Prior studies that emphasize a one-way flow of US programming to the periphery of the world system are now being reassessed in light of the increasing volume and velocity of multi-directional media flows that emanate from particular cities, such as Bombay, Cairo, and Hong Kong. These emerging centers of transnational cultural production suggest a need to supplement the current scholarly emphasis on national media systems with a more intensive exa…
Integration versus segregation: The experiences of a group of disabled students moving from mainstream school into special needs further education
Although the latest education policy for disabled students is one of inclusion, some students are moving out of mainstream schools into specialist colleges for their further education. This research uses a combination of group and individual interviews to explore why this move away from mainstream education is made. Results show that these students' moved into specialist education because of the inadequate physical accessibility of their mainstre…
The anomalies of being Faye (Wong): Gender politics in Chinese popular music
Building on previous research regarding popular music and the culture industries, this article examines the intersection between gender politics in Chinese societies and the musical success of Faye Wong, the reigning diva of the Hong Kong-based pop music industry. Influential among adolescents and young women, she has not only become a figure for textual identification but also a polysemic icon for cultural aspirations and feminist projects throu…
Women and Traumatic Brain Injury: “It's not visible damage”
With advances in medical technology, more people are surviving major trauma experiences. Those with a traumatic brain injury are one such group who may survive for several decades with significant health consequences including physical, cognitive, and psychosocial sequelae. Traumatic brain injury sufferers are typically young males with a premorbid history of risk taking. Consequently, the differential needs of female traumatic brain injury survi…
A Question of Manners: Status and Gender in Etiquette and Courtesy
A Vanishing Piece of the Pi: The Globalization of Visual Effects Labor
Digital visual effects (VFX) now comprise one-third of total production spending on major feature film releases. They also are a significant and growing component of production budgets for television programming and commercials. Yet, despite the rising status of VFX, this sector of the media business has been in turmoil for over a decade, a situation made palpable by recurring waves of bankruptcies and layoffs, most notably including Rhythm & Hue…
Chinese media and globalization
Keywords: Chinesemediaglobal studiesglobalizationtransnational
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict
Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television …
Beyond the vast wasteland: The policy discourse of global television and the politics of American empire
During the early 1960s, U.S. policymakers first envisioned a global television system linked by satellite technology. Their Utopian discourse suggested that, in the face of Third World “unrest” and growing Soviet competition, television would play an important role in promoting an “imagined community” of citizens throughout the Free World. This notion of cultural and geographic integration is examined in comparison to nineteenth‐century political…
Regulating the global infrastructure of film labor exploitation
Confronted by media globalization, many governments have expressed concern about the productive capacity of domestic screen media institutions that are aiming to sustain the allegiances of resident populations. Policymakers are furthermore aware that creative labor is now widely perceived as a resource worth cultivating for its perceived benefits as a catalyst to economic innovation and productivity. In fear of being left behind, countries with e…
What makes them willing collaborators? The global context of Chinese motion picture co-productions
Market access is becoming the single most significant factor affecting collaborations between Hollywood feature film producers and their Chinese partners. The current import quota system approves only 34 films each year, which are then distributed by the state-run China Film Group, which also controls the release date for each title. The best way for a foreign filmmaker to manage these uncertainties is to fashion a co-production deal with a mainl…
Traumatic Brain Injury, Participation, and Rural Identity
In this article we focus on participation following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in rural and regional Australian contexts, asking how aspects of rurality, such as place identity and rural belonging, impact on participation for the individual living with TBI. We found a preference for country living, despite disadvantages including distance from services and lack of anonymity. A rural identity provides access to an enabling narrative, the "rural …
Made in India”: In Between Music Television and Patriarchy
The pressing problems and peculiar potential of transculturation in music television can be most profitably addressed by examining the struggles within being waged by local Hindi pop artists such as Alisha Chinai. Through close textual analysis, this article critically examines how and why one of Alishas most popular music videos, titled “Made in India,” has become somewhat of a cultural icon for many Indian women, ranking as the best-selling pop…
Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics
Journal Article Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics. By Michael Curtin. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xii, 316 pp. Cloth, $52.00, ISBN 0-8135-2221-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8135-2222-6.) Get access Karal Ann Marling Karal Ann Marling University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issu…
Comparing media capitals: Hong Kong and Mumbai
Murdoch’s dilemma, or ‘What’s the price of TV in China?’
Satellite television figures prominently in scholarly speculation about globalization, since it has the potential to cross boundaries of class, gender, ethnicity and literacy, in addition to nation. Scholars furthermore suggest that satellite TV moves audiences towards a shared repertoire of images and ideas, thereby encouraging modernization and reflexive forms of representative government. Such lofty speculation fails, however, to take into acc…
Images of trust, economies of suspicion: Hong Kong media after 1997
1998). Images of trust, economies of suspicion: Hong Kong media after 1997. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 281-294
A Question of Manners: Status and Gender in Etiquette and Courtesy
The Discourse of "Scientific Anti-Communism" in the "Golden Age" of Documentary
Both media scholars and broadcast veterans often characterize early 1960s as of television documentary.' For it was during this era that documentary enjoyed a prominent place in prime-time network schedules and in public discussion about quality television. Furthermore, this golden age is remembered as an era of innovation. Albert Wasserman, one of leading documentary producers at NBC during early 1960s, recalls that television networks developed…
Beyond the vast wasteland: The policy discourse of global television and the politics of American empire
During the early 1960s, U.S. policymakers first envisioned a global television system linked by satellite technology. Their Utopian discourse suggested that, in the face of Third World “unrest” and growing Soviet competition, television would play an important role in promoting an “imagined community” of citizens throughout the Free World. This notion of cultural and geographic integration is examined in comparison to nineteenth‐century political…
Statement by Michael Curtin, Indiana University
(1996). Statement by Michael Curtin, Indiana University. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 413-417
Shooters: TV News Photographers and their Work
Introduction The Method A Career In Transition Markets The People The Work Discussion Glossary Bibliography Index
Media Marathon: A Twentieth-Century Memoir
Journal Article Media Marathon: A Twentieth-Century Memoir. By Erik Barnouw. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. x, 264 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8223-1728-1.) Get access Michael Curtin Michael Curtin Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1082–1083, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945772 Published: 01 December 1996
Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics
Journal Article Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics. By Michael Curtin. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xii, 316 pp. Cloth, $52.00, ISBN 0-8135-2221-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8135-2222-6.) Get access Karal Ann Marling Karal Ann Marling University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issu…
Mail Surveys for Election Forecasting? An Evaluation of the Columbus Dispatch Poll
Journal Article MAIL SURVEYS FOR ELECTION FORECASTING? AN EVALUATION OF THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH POLL Get access PENNY S. VISSER, PENNY S. VISSER PENNY s. VISSER is a doctoral candidate in the department of psychology at Ohio State University and JON A. KROSNICK is an associate professor in the departments of psychology and political science at Ohio State University, JESSE MARQUETTE is a professor of political science and director of the Survey Rese…
Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict
Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television …
Images of trust, economies of suspicion: Hong Kong media after 1997
1998). Images of trust, economies of suspicion: Hong Kong media after 1997. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 281-294
Feminine Desire in the Age of Satellite Television
Television texts around the world increasingly feature female characters who resist or reformulate conventional gender roles. This trend seems to defy expectations that the concentration of media ownership leads to a conservative, homogeneous flow of popular imagery. Such an apparent contradiction can be explained by close analysis of the strategies, operations, and discourse of culture industries in the neo-network era of satellite and cable med…
Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture
Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture. Barry Dornfeld. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. + 240 pp., notes, references, filmography, index
Made in India”: In Between Music Television and Patriarchy
The pressing problems and peculiar potential of transculturation in music television can be most profitably addressed by examining the struggles within being waged by local Hindi pop artists such as Alisha Chinai. Through close textual analysis, this article critically examines how and why one of Alishas most popular music videos, titled “Made in India,” has become somewhat of a cultural icon for many Indian women, ranking as the best-selling pop…
The anomalies of being Faye (Wong): Gender politics in Chinese popular music
Building on previous research regarding popular music and the culture industries, this article examines the intersection between gender politics in Chinese societies and the musical success of Faye Wong, the reigning diva of the Hong Kong-based pop music industry. Influential among adolescents and young women, she has not only become a figure for textual identification but also a polysemic icon for cultural aspirations and feminist projects throu…
Media Capital: Towards the Study of Spatial Flows
Prior studies that emphasize a one-way flow of US programming to the periphery of the world system are now being reassessed in light of the increasing volume and velocity of multi-directional media flows that emanate from particular cities, such as Bombay, Cairo, and Hong Kong. These emerging centers of transnational cultural production suggest a need to supplement the current scholarly emphasis on national media systems with a more intensive exa…
Media Capitals: Cultural Geographies of Global TV
Integration versus segregation: The experiences of a group of disabled students moving from mainstream school into special needs further education
Although the latest education policy for disabled students is one of inclusion, some students are moving out of mainstream schools into specialist colleges for their further education. This research uses a combination of group and individual interviews to explore why this move away from mainstream education is made. Results show that these students' moved into specialist education because of the inadequate physical accessibility of their mainstre…
Murdoch’s dilemma, or ‘What’s the price of TV in China?’
Satellite television figures prominently in scholarly speculation about globalization, since it has the potential to cross boundaries of class, gender, ethnicity and literacy, in addition to nation. Scholars furthermore suggest that satellite TV moves audiences towards a shared repertoire of images and ideas, thereby encouraging modernization and reflexive forms of representative government. Such lofty speculation fails, however, to take into acc…
Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV
In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980s have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, the escalation of democracy movements, and the emergence of an East Asian youth culture. Reaching beyond national …
The American Television Industry
Introduction 1 Key Players 2 Audiences and Advertising 3 Television Programming 4 Making TV on the Broadcast Networks 5 Branded Cable Networks 6 The New Economies of TV Information Conclusion Bibliography Index
Created in China: The Great New Leap Forward . Michael Keane
Comparing media capitals: Hong Kong and Mumbai
Traumatic Brain Injury, Participation, and Rural Identity
In this article we focus on participation following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in rural and regional Australian contexts, asking how aspects of rurality, such as place identity and rural belonging, impact on participation for the individual living with TBI. We found a preference for country living, despite disadvantages including distance from services and lack of anonymity. A rural identity provides access to an enabling narrative, the "rural …
Women and Traumatic Brain Injury: “It's not visible damage”
With advances in medical technology, more people are surviving major trauma experiences. Those with a traumatic brain injury are one such group who may survive for several decades with significant health consequences including physical, cognitive, and psychosocial sequelae. Traumatic brain injury sufferers are typically young males with a premorbid history of risk taking. Consequently, the differential needs of female traumatic brain injury survi…
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