Lecture 1

Haven, T., Lotz, A.D. and Tinic, S. (2009) Critical Media Industry Studies: A Research
Approach. Communication, Culture and Critique, 2(2): 234-253.

Holt, J. and Perren, A. (2009) Introduction: Does the world really need another field of study? In:
J. Holt and A. Perren (eds)Media Industries: History, Theory and Method. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,
pp.1-16.

(for a short update, see: Holt, J. and Perren, A. (2019) Media Industries: A Decade in Review, in
Deuze, M. and Prenger, M. (eds) Making Media: Production, practices, and professions. Amsterdam
University Press, pp.31-43.)


Lecture 2

Caves, Richard E. (2002) Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press. – Introduction: economic properties of creative activities, pp.1-17.
(esp. p.1-10).

Hesmondhalgh, D. (2019) The Cultural Industries. 4^th edition. London: Sage – Chapter 1, pp: 4-24.

Keat, R. (1999) Market boundaries and the commodfication of culture. In: L. Ray and S. Sayers
(eds) Culture and economy: after the cultural turn. London: Sage, pp.92-111.


Lecture 3

Gill, R. and Pratt, A. (2008) In the Social Factory? Immaterial Labour, Precariousness and Cultural
Work, Theory, culture & society. 25(7-8): 1-30.

Hesmondhalgh, D. and Baker, S. (2010). ‘A very complicated version of freedom’: conditions and
experiences of creative labour in three cultural industries. Poetics, 38: 4–20.

Lee, D. (2012) The Ethics of Insecurity: Risk, Individualisation and Value in British Independent
Television Production.Television and New Media, 13(6): 480-487.


Lecture 4

Banks, Mark. (2010) Autonomy guaranteed? Cultural work and the “art-commerce relation”. Journal for
Cultural Research. 14(3): 251-269.

Hesmondhalgh, D. and Zoellner, A. (2012) Is Media Work Good Work? A Case Study of Television
Documentary, in: A. N. Valdivia (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies. Oxford and
Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp: 557- 581.

Oakley, K. 2013. Absentee workers: representation and participation in cultural industries, in:
Banks, Gill, & Taylor (eds)Theorizing Cultural Work, London: Routledge, pp.56-67.


Lecture 5

Bruun, H. (2016) The Qualitative Interview in Media Production Studies, in C. Paterson, D. Lee, A.
Saha and A. Zoellner (eds)Advancing Media Production Research: Shifting Sites, Methods, and
Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 131-146.

Grindstaff, L. (2002) The Money Shot: Trash, class and the making of TV Talk Shows. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press – Epilogue, pp. 275-288.

Warren, C.A.B., (2001) Qualitative Interviewing, in Gubrium, J. and Holstein, J. (eds) Handbook of
Interview Research: Context and Method. London: Sage, pp.83-102.


Lecture 6,

Paterson, C., Lee, D., Saha, A and Zoellner, A. (2016) Production Research - Continuity and
Transformation, in C. Paterson, D. Lee, A. Saha and A. Zoellner (eds) Advancing Media Production
Research: Shifting Sites, Methods, and Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3-19.

Zoellner, A. (2015) Detachment, Pride, Critique – Professional Identity in Independent Factual
Television Production in Great Britain and Germany, in Mayer, V.; Banks, M. and B. Conor
(eds) Production Studies, the Sequel! New York: Routledge, pp. 150-163.