Janet wasko university of oregon
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Janet Wasko
Selected works:
Swartz, Jeremy and Janet Wasko (eds.), LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry, Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Murdock, Graham and Janet Wasko, "Contested Critique: The Political Career of the Political Economy Section," in J. Becker and R. Mansell (eds.), Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research: Many Voices, One Forum, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 21-53.
Wasko, Janet, “Origins of Research into Media Industries Conducted in the United States,” in P. McDonald (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Media Industries. Routledge, 2022, pp. 44-54.
Swartz, Jeremy and Janet Wasko (eds.), MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry, Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Wasko, Janet, Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy, 2nd Edition, Polity Press, 2020.
Wasko, Janet and Eileen R. Meehan (eds.), A Companion to Television, 2nd Edition, Blackwell Companions in Cultura
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Janet Wasko
Abstract
Janet Wasko is currently Professor and Knight Chair for Communication Research at University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, USA. She received a PhD in communication research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1980 and now serves as the President of IAMCR. She was previously Head of the IAMCR’s Political Economy Section, as well as serving the organization in other positions. She was also involved with the organization of UDC in the early 1980s.
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Michelle A. Amazeen
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International Journal of Comic Art, USA
John A. Lent
Rider University, USA
Michelle A. Amazeen
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Janet Wasko fryst vatten the Knight Chair for Communication Research at University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Her research and teaching focuses on the political economy of media, especially the political economy of spelfilm, as well as issues relating to democracy and media. She currently serves as the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.
Wasko is the author, co-author or editor of 19 books, including: How Hollywood Works (Sage, 2003), Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy (Polity Press/ Blackwell, 2001), Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen (Polity Press, 1994), A Companion to Television (Blackwell, 2005) and Dazzled bygd Disney? The Global Disney Audience planerat arbete (Leicester University Press/Continuum, 2001). How Hollywood Works fryst vatten a book about the U.S. motion picture industry”its structure and policies, its operations and practices. It looks at the processes that are involved in turning raw materials and labor into fe