A penetrating and thought-provoking analysis of an industry that is under-researched and yet of great cultural and economic significance. Using the UK and New Zealand TV industries as windows onto wider processes, Christophers skilfully reveals the complex intersections of knowledge, power and geography through which the sector is constantly being made and remade. Most significantly, the analysis lays bare the different modalities of power which shape the media worlds that surround us all.

Neil Coe, University of Manchester, UK

Television today is a major locus for the organization of knowledge, the accumulation of capital, and the exercise of power. Envisioning Media Power offers a forceful and insightful examination of how these processes interact. The book should be read by anyone interested in rethinking the ways the media industries have given contemporary political economy some of its most distinctive political and financial forms.

Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University

Brett Christophers brings acute intelligence and original research to bear on television. This innovative study offers a new and exciting approach that blends political economy, geography, and cultural theory. Bravo!

Toby Miller, New York University

This book will appeal to sophisticated students and to scholars looking for a deeply empirical study that engages much of the recent debates and research in media economics and the economic geography of culture industries.

Journal Of Economic Geography

Brett Christophers's book Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographies of Television has set itself an ambitious agenda. It aims to capture how power operates and flows through media across geographic space, focusing on the medium of television, with media understood as its programs, production processes, ratings data, and policy discourses. The book aims to develop an original application of economic geography-particularly David Harvey's notion of a “spatial fix” embedded in the contradictory circuits of capital accumulation-while updating the political economy of the media approach through specific application of such developments as localized case studies in the recent context of the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

Economic Geography

For those interested in a critical understanding of the relations between television, cultural production, and the geographical political economy of media, this book will be an immensely rich resource.

Environment And Planning A: Intl Journal Of Urban And Regional Research