This edited volume offers a global overview that impact the COVID-19 pandemic, and other significant crises, have had on media industries and how theyve responded.
With accounts from the frontlines of local and national film, television, streaming and social media industries, this book provides a stakeholder framework, management lessons, and urgent commentaries to unpack the nature of crisis management and communication. The text examines how these industries have not only survived, but often thrived amongst a backdrop of critical national and regional emergencies, wars, financial meltdowns, and climate disasters. This international collection - featuring case studies from sixteen 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 text reveals 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 the media industries and practices, and crisis communication and management, as well as those working in the media industries.
This edited volume offers a global overview that impact the COVID-19 pandemic, and other significant crises, have had on media industries and how theyve responded.
Introduction: COVID Strikes: The Makings of Crisis within a Crisis
Industry Vicki Mayer PART I: Defining Stakes and Stakeholders in Media Crises
1. Insider Stakeholders: Hollywood in Crisis Miranda Banks
2. Essential
Stakeholders: Is Kirstens Dunsts Nanny an Essential Worker? Dispatches
from Studio New Zealand Bridget Conor
3. Policy Stakeholders: Political
Pivots and Precarity in Colombias Orange Economy Enrique Uribe Jongbloed and
César Mora-Moreo
4. Cultural Stakeholders: Solidarity in Finland for Creative
Justice Anne Soronen
5. External Stakeholders: How Hollywoods U.S. Boosters
Normalized Risk Kate Fortmueller
6. Stakeholders in Troubled Times:
Understanding the Scene of Egyptian Media Production in Two Timeframes Mariz
Kelada and Chihab El Khachab PART II: From the Headlines: Crisis Management
and Communications
7. Polish Perspectives on Netflix COVID-19 Relief Funds
Micha Pabi-Orzeszyna
8. Studio Construction in IrelandBoom, Bubbleor
Both? Bill Grantham
9. Indian Pandemic Entertainment Aesthetics and
Infrastructure Darshana Sreedhar Mini
10. Not Essential: The Controversial
Status of Turkish Dizis Zeynep Sertbulut
11. COVID Variants and Colonial
Remnants in South African Media Industries Jessica Dickson
12. Shooting with
a Long Lens: Three Interviews with a Feminist Filmmaker in the Age of US
Racial Reckonings Angela Tucker and Vicki Mayer
13. Work Contracts and
Creative Justice for Turkey Ergin Bulut
14. Working From Home for Abroad:
(Re)configurations of the Brazilian Animation Industry Elena Altheman
15.
Fraught Gathering: Studio-Exhibitor Reckoning at CinemaCon 2021 Charlotte
Orzel
16. Collaborative Networks for Streaming Film Festivals as Crisis
Responses in Germany Skadi Loist
17. Multi-Cinemas and the Moment of Meme
Capitalism Toby Miller PART III: Lessons Learned about Crises
18. Combat
Lessons on the Decline of Democracy in/on Israeli Television News Noa Lavie
19. Taking a Cue from the COVID Lobby: Lessons for Greening Dutch Film
Production Judith Keilbach
20. COVID Choreography in the U.K.: Redefining
Intimacy on Set Tanya Horeck and Susan Berridge
21. Lessons from Mumbai:
Managing the Lockdowns in Two Media Industries Tejaswini Ganti
22. Riding the
Roller Coaster: Scenes from the Chinese Film Industry Ying Zhu
23. Epilogue:
Learning from One Particular Crisis Miranda Banks, Vicki Mayer, and Noa Lavie
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 AvivJaffa. 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).
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