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Talking Television in a Time of Crisis, Episode 10: Economics

January 07, 2021 by Chris Becker in Podcast

Episode 10 of our special series “Talking Television in a Time of Crisis” is here: Economics. How has the business of television, from streaming to legacy media, changed in 2020? How can we rethink notions of value in the industry that might contest capitalist modes of production and consumption?

Host: Miranda Banks (Loyola Marymount University)
Guest Scholars: Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics), Melanie Kohnen (Lewis and Clark College), Al Martin (University of Iowa), and Alisa Perren (University of Texas, Austin).

For more on the participants and on this special series, click here.