This edited volume offers a global overview of the immediate impacts the COVID pandemic had on local and national film, television, streaming, and social media industries―examining in compelling detail how these industries managed the crisis.
With accounts from the frontlines, Media Industries in Crisis provides readers with a stakeholder framework, management lessons, and urgent commentaries to unpack the nature of crisis management and communications. The authors show how these industries have not only survived, but often thrive amidst a backdrop of critical national and regional emergencies, wars, financial meltdowns, and climate disasters. This international collection―featuring case studies from 16 countries―examines how media industries managed all of these crises, successfully rebranding themselves as “essential” while making power plays in politics, economics, and culture. The chapters reveal key lessons for the meltdowns, tectonic shifts, and struggles ahead.
This collection will be of interest to media and communication students, particularly those focused on media industries, crisis communications, and management, as well as to practitioners working in media industries.
Introduction and Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Vicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane University. She is author or editor of several books about media and communication, especially cultures of production. Her edited/authored books include Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries (2009), Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy (2011) and Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy (2017).
Noa Lavie is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Communication and Media Unit at Academic College of Tel Aviv‑Jaffa. Her work on the sociology of culture, media industries and television studies has led to prestigious grants (ISF 2017, BSF 2021) and publications in Ethnicities, Media Culture and Society, Sociology, Television and New Media, and Poetics.
Miranda Banks is Associate Professor and Chair of Film, Television, and Media Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She is author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild (2015) and coeditor of Production Studies (2009) and Production Studies, The Sequel! (2016).
