Media Industries is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that supports critical studies of media industries, institutions, and policies worldwide.

Current Issue: Vol. 4, No. 2

Managing Editor Kevin Sanson at Queensland University of Technology provided oversight for Vol. 4, No. 2.

He was supported by outgoing Managing Editors Amelia Arsenault (Georgia State University) and Alisa Perren (The University of Texas at Austin) and Graduate Editorial Assistant Dan Padua (Queensland University of Technology).

Articles

Film Distribution in New Zealand: Industrial Organization, Power Relations, and Market Failure

Argelia Muñoz Larroa (Victoria University of Wellington) and Natàlia Ferrer-Roca (Victoria University of Wellington)

Cold Comfort: Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Newspaper Industry from the Twentieth-Century Ice Industry

Andrew Duffy (Nanyang Technological University), Rich Ling (Nanyang Technological University), and Oscar Westlund (University of Gothenberg and Volda University College)

Human and Business Success Factors for Transmedia Design Collaborations

Kevyn Eva Norton (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences and NortonConcepts) and Michelle Helena Kovacs (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences)

Bureaucrats and Movie Czars: Canada’s Feature Film Policy since 2000

Charles Tepperman (University of Calgary)

Reviews

Book Review: Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

Review by Allyson Nadia Field (University of Chicago)

Resource Review: Media History Digital Library and Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive

Review by James Steffen (Emory University)