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The Hollywood trilogy, the Disney duo / Eileen R. Meehan -- Movie theaters and money : integration and consolidation in film exhibition / Ben Birkinbine -- How Hollywood workers unite : labor convergence and the creation of SAG-AFTRA / Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco -- Mexican film industry, 2000-2018 : resurgence or assimilation? / Rodrigo Gomez -- The new holy grail : prime time television and state production incentive in the United States / William M. Kunz -- Old strategies in the new paradigm : web series and corporate control / Mary P. Erickson -- State monopoly of telecommunications in Ethiopia : revisiting natural monopoly in the era of deregulation / Téwodros W. Workneh and H. Leslie Steeves -- Through being cool : iTunes and the political economy of music retail / David Gracon -- In practice and theory? : a review of scholarship on Wikipedia's political economy / Randall Livingstone -- Bribe and journalism / Jörg Becker -- Labor in the age of digital (re)production / Gerald Sussman -- Power under pressure : digital capitalism in crisis / Dan Schiller -- Minutes to midnight : capitalist communication and climate catastrophe / Graham Murdock -- Time, ecology, and commodity fetishism / Wayne Hope.

Inside the Video Game Industry offers a provocative look into one of today's most dynamic and creative businesses. Through in-depth structured interviews, industry professionals discuss their roles, providing invaluable insight into game programming, art, animation, design, production, quality assurance, audio and business professions. From hiring and firing conventions, attitudes about gender disparity, goals for work-life balance, and a span of legal, psychological, and communal intellectual property protection mechanisms, the book's combination of accessible industry talk and incisive thematic overviews is ideal for anyone interested in games as a global industry, a site of cultural study, or a prospective career path. Designed for researchers, educators, and students, this book provides a critical perspective on an often opaque business and its highly mobile workforce. Additional teaching materials, including activities and study questions, can be found at https://www.routledge.com/9780415828284.