Point of Sale: Analyzing Media Retail

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Synopsis
Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a site of transactional significance to industries as well as a crucial locus of meaning and interactional participation for consumers. In addition to examining how industries connect books, DVDs, video games, lifestyle products, toys, and more to consumers, it also interrogates the changes in media circulation driven by the collision of digital platforms with existing retail institutions. By grappling with the contexts in which we buy media, Point of Sale uncovers the underlying tensions that define the contemporary culture industries.
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780813595542
Related ISBNs:
9780813595535, 9780813595528
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Rutgers University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Communication
Grade Levels:
College Freshman
Reading Age:
18 and up
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Daniel Herbert
Edited by:
Derek Johnson

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