Show and Biz
The market economy in TV series and popular culture (2000-2020)
- 302 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Show and Biz
The market economy in TV series and popular culture (2000-2020)
About this book
How is capitalism represented in popular culture today? Are profits seen as a legitimate reward of entrepreneurship? Are thrift and effort still considered a cornerstone of a healthy society? Or is it that inequalities are eliciting scandal and reproach? How is the ecosystem portrayed, vis-à-vis profit seeking companies? Are they irreconcilable, or maybe not? Are there any established trends with respect to the presentation of entrepreneurship, and that complex legal artefact that is the modern limited liability company? These are questions that will be at the core of this book. But they are not examined through the usual theoretical point of references, but looking at TV series produced in 2000-2020. Each chapter of this book is a case studies, covering some of the most popular, successful and engaging TV shows of the last 20 years. And showing how deep economic ideas and biases lie, at the roots of some of our times' most successful entertainment products.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise in the Gilmore Girls
- 2 Supplies, Slaves, and Sex: Firefly and the Ethical Frontiers of Entrepreneurship
- 3 Entrepreneurship and the Market Economy in The Wire: Stringer’s Ill-Fated Second Chance
- 4 Growing up with the Country: Deadwood and the Business of America
- 5 The Bourgeois Virtues in Deadwood: Challenging American Ideology
- 6 Mad Men: An Anti-capitalistic Ode to the Present
- 7 Gossip Girl: The Business of Being Famous
- 8 Looking into the Jaws of Capitalism: Shark Tank and Economic Theory
- 9 Mouse Rat, Snake Juice, and the Cones of Dunshire: Failure as the Ecosystem of Entrepreneurship in Parks and Recreation
- 10 The Newsroom
- 11 Clueless Innovators and Boring Managers: Popular Perceptions of Business in Halt and Catch Fire
- 12 StartUp on TV
- 13 Narcos: México: Drugs, Public Opinion, Venezuela, and “Neoliberalism”
- 14 A Tale of Two Villains: Finance and the State in the TV Series Billions
- 15 Inequalities at the End of the World: Snowpiercer, Entrepreneurship, and Disorder
- Name Index
- Works Index
- Imprint