Global Entertainment Media: Content, Audiences, Issues

US: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Global Entertainment Media offers a unique perspective on entertainment med ia worldwide. As one of the first comprehensive books to address entertainm ent mass media worldwide, it addresses students as TV watchers and takes th em to new places, both geographically and intellectually. Editor Anne Coope r-Chen has gathered an international group of scholars to explore such conc epts as psychology, gratifications, and effects of media entertainment and its relation to national cultures, as well as to discuss the business of in ternational TV trade by transnational media corporations. In this volume, experts discuss the content, audiences, and cultural and le gal aspects of their respective countries, all of which are major TV market s. The country-specific chapters draw on the individual insights, expertise , and currency of 10 resident authors. Contributions represent every hemisp here of the globe, offering detailed examinations of media entertainment in United Kingdom, Germany, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Japan, China , Brazil, and Mexico. The two concluding chapters provide cross-national ca se studies that look at familiar TV experiences--The Olympics and the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" show--in global and novel ways. Global Entertainment Media is intended for students in international media, comparative media, cross-cultural communication, and television studies, and it also has much to offer scholars and researchers in entertainment media.