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“Independence,” Industrial Authorship, and Professional Entrepreneurship: Representing and Reorganizing Television Writing in the FCC Media Ownership Reviews
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 52, Number 3, Spring 2013
- pp. 120-144
- 10.1353/cj.2013.0022
- Article
- Additional Information
In recent Federal Communications Commission reviews of media ownership rules, television writers unsuccessfully campaigned for a prime-time set-aside for “independent” programs. This article approaches the campaign as a structured negotiation of writers’ industrial authorship, which exploited institutional contradictions across the field while also betraying instabilities in the concept of independence itself.