'Since the late 1970s, Australia has nurtured a creative and resilient children’s television production sector with a global reputation for excellence. Providing a systematic analysis of the creative, economic, regulatory, and technological factors that shape the production of contemporary Australian children’s television for digital regimes, Creativity, Culture and Commerce charts the complex new settlements in children’s television that developed from 2001 to 2014 and describes the challenges inherent in producing culturally specific screen content for global markets. It also calls for new public debate around the provision of high-quality screen content for children, arguing that the creation of public value must sit at the centre of these discussions.' (Publication summary)
Chapter titles
Understanding Children’s Television During the Digital Transition
Shaping the Foundations: Establishing an Australian Children’s Television Production Industry
A Very Special Audience: Children and Television
The National Context: Australian Broadcasters, Children’s Television and Public Value
It’s a Small World After All: The Internationalization of Australian Children’s Television
Policing the Settlement: Policy and Public Value in Children’s Television
Producing Children’s Television for Digital Regimes: Case Studies from the Production Sector
New Settlements in Children’s Television: Key Trends and Future Outlook