Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Discourses, Dispositions, Tactics -- 1. Building Theories of Creative Industry Managers -- 2. Towards a Structuration Theory of Media Intermediaries -- 3. Linear Legacies -- 4. Enterprising Selves -- 5. Record Men -- 6. Re-Casting the Casting Director --...

In popular culture, management in the media industry is frequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, and market researchers-""the suits""-who oppose the more productive forces of creative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversion of...