1st Edition
Australian Cultural Policy Unravelled The Digital Demise of National Television Drama
1. Cultural policy has failed Australian television drama 2. Understanding Australian television culture 3. The end of mass media logics: broadcaster and policymaker responses 4. Screen agency roles and reforms: the case of Screen Australia 5. Australian drama producers: evolution and adaptation 6. Policy Reform: Looking to the Future 7. Conclusions And Implications for Australian Drama
Biography
Anna Potter, PhD, is a Professor in Digital Media and Cultural Studies in Queensland University of Technology’s School of Communication, where she is Academic Lead, Research and a Chief Investigator in the Digital Media Research Centre. A leading authority on children’s television, national drama and media policy, she is the author of Creativity, Culture, and Commerce: Producing Australian Children’s Television with Public Value (Intellect, 2015), Producing Children’s Television in the On-Demand Age (Intellect, 2020), and multiple journal article and book chapters.
Marion McCutcheon, PhD, is a communications economist and holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at the University of Canberra’s News and Media Research Centre. She has extensive experience in providing policy-focused research and advice within the Australian Government, and as an academic researcher focusing on the media industries and creative industries. Her interests include the role of the creative industries in economic systems and how society benefits from investing in culture. Recent work includes the book Transnational TV Crime: From Scandinavia to the Outback (Edinburgh University Press 2024) with the University of Wollongong’s Sue Turnbull.
