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Making Media WorkCultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries\nAuthor(s): Derek Johnson, Derek Kompare, Avi Santo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814760994, 978-0814760994\nSynopsis\nThe management and labor culture of the entertainment industry. \n In popular culture, management in the media industry is\n frequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, and\n market researchers\""the suits\""who oppose the more productive forces of\n creative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversion\n of bureaucratic hierarchies. However, such portrayals belie the reality\n of how media management operates as a culture of shifting discourses,\n dispositions, and tactics that create meaning, generate value, and shape media\n work throughout each moment of production and consumption.\n Making Media Work aims to provide a deeper and more nuanced under.