John Mcmurria
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mcmurria |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmurria |
| SIGNATURE | MCMURRIA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Citizenship and Media Ownership
For the practice and study of media production, ownership matters. This chapter considers three orientations to media ownership in the US, with attention to how each invokes particular rationales for citizenship. The first orientation considers the critique of media conglomeration that emerged in the 1980s and the anti‐corporate populist expressions of citizenship that have informed recent campaigns to reduce corporate media power. The second con…
Moby Dick, cultural policy and the geographies and geopolitics of cultural labor
This article examines the official Australia/UK television co-production of Moby Dick (1998) to engage with cultural policy issues within an increasingly transnational audiovisual sector. It begins with the political and cultural contexts of Melville's mid-19th-century novel to demonstrate that international law and commercial power have long shaped `national' cultural production. The late 20th-century co-production contexts include international…
Desperate Citizens and Good Samaritans
This article considers the emergence of makeover reality TV, including Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ( EMHE), within the cultural and political economic context of neoliberalism, which advocates corporate benevolence, individual volunteerism, and personal responsibility as principle means for solving serious social issues. Four contexts include (a) the integration of corporate philanthropy and product marketing since the 1980s; (b) the prolifera…
Global Hollywood 2
Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood's apparent artistic success. It takes into consideration recent events affecting Hollywood such as 9/11, US foreign policy and developments in consumer technology
Whereto the Cultural Exception? Pay-Television and the Future fo European Film Finanace
Pay-TV is the fastest growing source of film finance worldwide, which increased at a rate of 23 per cent in the last five years of the 1990s. In his essay, John McMurria maps this new market using the case of Canal Plus and Vivendi Universal to tell us about the future of film production
Global Hollywood 2
Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood's apparent artistic success. It takes into consideration recent events affecting Hollywood such as 9/11, US foreign policy and developments in consumer technology
Desperate Citizens and Good Samaritans
This article considers the emergence of makeover reality TV, including Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ( EMHE), within the cultural and political economic context of neoliberalism, which advocates corporate benevolence, individual volunteerism, and personal responsibility as principle means for solving serious social issues. Four contexts include (a) the integration of corporate philanthropy and product marketing since the 1980s; (b) the prolifera…
Whereto the Cultural Exception? Pay-Television and the Future fo European Film Finanace
Pay-TV is the fastest growing source of film finance worldwide, which increased at a rate of 23 per cent in the last five years of the 1990s. In his essay, John McMurria maps this new market using the case of Canal Plus and Vivendi Universal to tell us about the future of film production
Global Hollywood 2
Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood's apparent artistic success. It takes into consideration recent events affecting Hollywood such as 9/11, US foreign policy and developments in consumer technology
Desperate Citizens and Good Samaritans
This article considers the emergence of makeover reality TV, including Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ( EMHE), within the cultural and political economic context of neoliberalism, which advocates corporate benevolence, individual volunteerism, and personal responsibility as principle means for solving serious social issues. Four contexts include (a) the integration of corporate philanthropy and product marketing since the 1980s; (b) the prolifera…
Moby Dick, cultural policy and the geographies and geopolitics of cultural labor
This article examines the official Australia/UK television co-production of Moby Dick (1998) to engage with cultural policy issues within an increasingly transnational audiovisual sector. It begins with the political and cultural contexts of Melville's mid-19th-century novel to demonstrate that international law and commercial power have long shaped `national' cultural production. The late 20th-century co-production contexts include international…
Citizenship and Media Ownership
For the practice and study of media production, ownership matters. This chapter considers three orientations to media ownership in the US, with attention to how each invokes particular rationales for citizenship. The first orientation considers the critique of media conglomeration that emerged in the 1980s and the anti‐corporate populist expressions of citizenship that have informed recent campaigns to reduce corporate media power. The second con…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Economics (2 works)