Global Media Industries Speaker Series – Jennifer Porst, “Media Industry Disruption: Past and/is Present”
March 30 @ 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm CDT
THURSDAY, MARCH 30
Jennifer Porst
3:30–4:45 pm • DMC 5.208
Sponsored by the Global Media Industries Speaker Series, the Center for Entertainment & Media Industries, & the Department of Radio-Television-Film
Jennifer Porst is an assistant professor of media industries and television studies at the University of North Texas. She recently published Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films on Early TV and co-edited Very Special Episodes: Televising Industrial and Social Change (both Rutgers 2021). Her work has also appeared in Television & New Media, The Routledge Companion to Media Industries, Hollywood and the Law, and Film History, and she is Co-Chair of the Media Industries SIG.
“Media Industry Disruption: Past and/is Present”
In this talk, Porst will discuss the research for her book Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films on Early TV, which explores the disruption of the film industry by television in the mid-twentieth century and allows an understanding of the ways that economic, political, legal, social, and cultural institutions mediate and shape the media industries. The lessons from those struggles allow researchers and industry professionals insight into not only the challenges faced by the media industry in that earlier period, but also provide important insight into contemporary issues at the heart of the looming writers’ strike, regulation of media content in the digital age, and even legal disputes over Scarlet Johannsen’s contract with Disney.
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