Creativity, Culture and Commerce: Producing Australian Childrens Television with Public Value

Since the late 1970s, Australia has nurtured a creative and resilient childrens 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 childrens television for digital regimes, Creativity, Culture and Commerce charts the complex new settlements in childrens 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.