https://hdl.handle.net/10419/182262 2026-10-22T18:51:27Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305372 Title: Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia Authors: Welker, Marina Abstract: Indonesia is the world's second-largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke, and clove-laced tobacco cigarettes called kretek make up 95 percent of the market. Each year, more than 250,000 Indonesians die of tobacco-related diseases. To account for the staggering success of this lethal industry, Kretek Capitalism examines how kretek manufacturers have adopted global tobacco technologies and enlisted Indonesians to labor on their behalf in fields and factories, at retail outlets and social gatherings, and online. The book charts how Sampoerna, a Philip Morris subsidiary, uses contracts, competitions, and gender, age, and class hierarchies to extract labor from workers, influencers, artists, students, retailers, and consumers. Critically engaging nationalist claims about the commodity's cultural heritage and the jobs it supports, Marina Welker shows how global capitalism has transformed both kretek and the labor required to make and promote it. "Thoughtful and provocative, this is a superb book that will be widely read, especially by those who are looking for an antidote to current popular support of kretek."—Abidin Kusno, author of Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions "A magnificent book! Kretek Capitalism is destined to become a classic of both medical anthropology and public health scholarship."—Robert Proctor, author of Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302599 Title: Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation Authors: Clark, Jennifer S. Abstract: In this archivally informed work, Jennifer S. Clark explores the multiple ways in which the feminist priorities of the 1970s were strengthened by women who labored in the American television industry. Carefully synthesizing an array of interviews and primary sources—from television network memos to programming schedules, production notes to executive meeting agendas—Clark tells the story of how women organized in the workplace to form collectives, affect production labor, and develop reform‑oriented policies and philosophies that reshaped television behind the screen. She urges us to consider how interventions, often at localized levels, can collectively shift the dynamics of media workplaces and the cultural products created therein. "A terrific model of feminist media historiography. Jennifer Clark expands our understanding of 1970s American television, the women's liberation movement, and the deep connections among gender, labor, and activism while innovating new strategies to examine the media industries." — Elana Levine, author of Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History "A massively important and enlightening contribution to the field, offering a nuanced treatment of industry cooperation and compromise. Clark uses rare archival findings and a wide range of cultural objects and case studies to generate fresh, bold conclusions around second-wave feminism and American television." — Annie Berke, author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312754 Title: Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture Authors: deWaard, Andrew Abstract: Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old? Contrary to popular belief, the reason is not audiences or marketing, but Wall Street. In this book, Andrew deWaard shows how the financial sector is dismantling the creative capacity of cultural industries by upwardly redistributing wealth, consolidating corporate media, harming creative labor, and restricting our collective media culture. Moreover, financialization is transforming the very character of our mediascapes for branded transactions. Our media are increasingly shaped by the profit-extraction techniques of hedge funds, asset managers, venture capitalists, private equity firms, and derivatives traders. Illustrated with examples drawn from popular culture, Derivative Media offers readers the critical financial literacy necessary to understand the destructive financialization of film, television, and popular music—and provides a plan to reverse this dire threat to culture. "The thoughtful and thought-provoking chapters of Derivative Media feel like cave paintings that future generations will read long after we've perished in the flames of greed. A must-read for anyone working in the arts wanting to help humanity change course quickly!" — Martin Starr, actor, Freaks and Geeks and Silicon Valley "The go-to account of our contemporary financialized culture. It will reshape media studies and give activists new tools to understand the dynamics of the now." — J. D. Connor, author, Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession "This tour-de-force breakdown of financialization in the culture industries is essential reading for scholars and creative workers alike." — Jennifer Holt, author, Empires of Entertainment: Media Industries and the Politics of Deregulation, 1980–1996 "A generational advance in the political economy of communication. I have been waiting for a book like this." — Jonathan Sterne, author, MP3: The Meaning of a Format 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312755 Title: Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge Authors: Biltekoff, Charlotte Abstract: In recent decades, many members of the public have come to see processed food as a problem that needs to be solved by eating "real" food and reforming the food system. But for many food industry professionals, the problem is not processed food or the food system itself, but misperceptions and irrational fears caused by the public's lack of scientific understanding. In her highly original book, Charlotte Biltekoff explores the role that science and scientific authority play in food industry responses to consumer concerns about what we eat and how it is made. As Biltekoff documents, industry efforts to correct public misperceptions through science-based education have consistently misunderstood the public's concerns, which she argues are an expression of politics. This has entrenched "food scientism" in public discourse and seeded a form of antipolitics, with broad consequences. Real Food, Real Facts offers lessons that extend well beyond food choice and will appeal to readers interested in how everyday people come to accept or reject scientific authority in matters of personal health and well-being. "In this brilliant book, Charlotte Biltekoff deftly examines unexplored dimensions of the food wars and ultimately offers more nuanced thinking about science as the ultimate arbiter of fundamentally political decisions—a difficult but necessary challenge in a 'post-truth' world." — Julie Guthman, author of The Problem with Solutions "This is critical reading for scholars, consumers, and food industry professionals alike." — Anna Zeide, author of Canned "In lucid, accessible prose, Biltekoff employs the frames of Real Facts and Real Food to understand the twenty-first-century landscape of American food." — Amy Bentley, Professor of Food Studies, New York University 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z