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Show and Biz
The market economy in TV series and popular culture (2000-2020)
Sous la direction de María Blanco
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Description de l'ouvrage:
How is capitalism represented in popular culture today? Are profits seen as a legitimate reward of entrepreneurship? Are thrift and effort still considered a cornerstone of a healthy society? Or is it that inequalities are eliciting scandal and reproach? How is the ecosystem portrayed, vis-à-vis profit seeking companies? Are they irreconcilable, or maybe not? Are there any established trends with respect to the presentation of entrepreneurship, and that complex legal artefact that is the modern limited liability company? These are questions that will be at the core of this book. But they are not examined through the usual theoretical point of references, but looking at TV series produced in 2000-2020. Each chapter of this book is a case studies, covering some of the most popular, successful and engaging TV shows of the last 20 years. And showing how deep economic ideas and biases lie, at the roots of some of our times’ most successful entertainment products.
À propos de l'auteur :
María Blanco is Associate Professor of Economic History and Institutions at San Pablo-CEU University and Associate Professor at CEU-ILEAD (Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Advanced Development), Spain. She is deputy editor of the European Journal of Political Economy Market Processes. She has taught at the Universidad Panamericana and Universidad del Valle de México, in Mexico City, Mexico. She writes for business newspapers and regularly participates in the media as an economic analyst. She has published three books on liberal thought, feminism and the rule of law.Alberto Mingardi is Professor of the history of political thought at IULM University in Milan, Italy. He is also Director General of the Italian free-market think tank, Istituto Bruno Leoni. He is a Presidential Scholar in Political Theory at Chapman University and an adjunct fellow at the Cato Institute, USA. He blogs at EconLog. He published critical editions of Thomas Hodgskin, Elie Kedourie, Vilfredo Pareto, and Herbert Spencer.
Revue de Presse:
"Razor-sharp analyses uncover the economic and political premises embedded in some of the most popular TV programs of the past two decades. This volume can significantly change the way we look at television-and economics." ―Jo Ann Cavallo, Professor of Italian and Italian Department Chair at Columbia University, USA
"There is a lot written about the cultural biases of TV and its complex relationship to entrepreneurial capitalism, but rarely in as broad-reaching, comprehensive, and well-documented a manner as in this collection. Show and Biz offers scholars in many fields exciting new perspectives about a subject of considerable cultural importance and demonstrable relevance." ―Alan Kahan, Université de Paris-Saclay, France
"Popular culture, television, and good economics are not often enough considered together. Show and Biz? is a breakthrough work which helps to remedy this longstanding gap. It is highly readable and entertaining as well as instructive." ―Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, USA
"This edited volume of fifteen chapters covering fourteen shows is a much-needed update to the literature on economics and popular culture. It would be a welcome addition for the classroom and for the general reader." ―The Independent Review
Voir le site internet de l'éditeur Bloomsbury Academic
> Sur un thème proche :
Television's Second Golden Age (2025)
Politics and International Relations in the Era of HBO and Streaming TV
Sujet : Economics
'Sluts' on the Small Screen (2024)
Female Promiscuity in Scripted American Television Series
Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics (2024)
Recycling Middlebrow Culture
Good Old-Fashioned Values (2024)
Gender and Family in Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show
Encyclopedia of Television Shows (2024)
Supplement 2--Broadcast, Cable and Streaming, 2017-2022
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