<i>Media Industries: History, Theory and Method</i> is among the first texts to explore the evolving field of media industry studies and offer an innovative blueprint for future study and analysis.<ul><li>capitalizes on the current social and cultural environment of unprecedented technical change, convergence, and globalization across a range of textual, institutional and theoretical perspectives<li>brings together newly commissioned essays by leading scholars in film, media, communications and cultural studies<li>includes case studies of film, television and digital media to vividly illustrate the dynamic transformations taking place across national, regional and international contexts</ul>