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  • Contributors

John T. Caldwell is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA. His books include Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice (Duke University Press, 2008), Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television (Rutgers University Press, 1995), Production Studies: Critical Studies of Media Industries (Routledge, 2009, co-edited with Vicki Mayer and Miranda Banks), and Electronic Media and Technoculture (Rutgers University Press, 2000).

Nitin Govil is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the coauthor of Global Hollywood (British Film Institute, 2001) and Global Hollywood 2 (British Film Institute, 2005). He is currently completing two books, a coauthored study of the Indian film industries and a book on Hollywood in India.

Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Chair of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author or editor of several books, including Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922–1952 (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and Network Nations: A Transnational [End Page 188] History of British and American Broadcasting (Routledge, 2011). Her forthcoming project is Radio’s New Wave: Global Sound in the Digital Era, coedited with Jason Loviglio.

Jennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment (Rutgers University Press, 2011) and coeditor of Media Industries: History, Theory, Method (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). She is also director of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s Media Industries Project at UCSB.

Paul McDonald is Professor of Creative Industries at the University of Nottingham and founder and cochair of the Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. He is the author of Hollywood Stardom (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), Video and DVD Industries (British Film Institute, 2007), and The Star System: Hollywood’s Production of Popular Identities (Wallflower, 2000), and coeditor of The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry (Blackwell, 2008).

Eileen R. Meehan is a professor in the Department of Radio and Television as well as Interim Director of the Global Media Research Center at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is the author of Why TV Is Not Our Fault: Television Programming, Viewers, and Who’s Really in Control (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).

Alisa Perren is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. She is coeditor of Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s (University of Texas Press, 2012), and coordinating editor of In Media Res, a MediaCommons Project that experiments with new forms of online scholarship. She also serves as cochair of the SCMS Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group and chair of the SCMS Public Policy Committee.

Janet Wasko is the Knight Chair for Communication Research at the University of Oregon, and current president of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of nineteen books, including Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy (Polity, 2001) and How Hollywood Works (Sage, 2003) and Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen (University of Texas Press, 1995). [End Page 189]

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