The Matsushita Takeover of MCA: A Critical, Materialist, Historical, and First Amendment View
1996; Routledge; Volume: 9; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1207/s15327736me0904_1
ISSN1532-7736
AutoresArnold S. Wolfe, Suraj Kapoor,
Tópico(s)Media Studies and Communication
ResumoThe November 1990 buyout of MCA, parent of the studio that released the films Jurassic Park, Jaws, and Back to the Future, and the television series Magnum, P.I. and Murder, She Wrote, is historically significant because it remains the largest takeover ever of a U.S. media firm by a foreign one. Matsushita sells products ranging from the videotape on which programs are shot, to the hardware on which they are edited, to the cable network that delivers them, to the receivers on which they are viewed. Within the context of a critical, materialist theory of history (Sholle, 1988, p. 17), this study employs economic and First Amendment theory to examine the implications of the takeover for freedom of expression in mo-on pictorial communication.
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