Rate My Professor John McMurria

McMurria's research explores the political economy of media industries, including cable television history, global film distribution, neoliberalism in television formats, and internet policy. As a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, his work investigated global dynamics in multi-channel television. Key publications include co-authorship of Global Hollywood (British Film Institute, 2001) and Global Hollywood 2 (British Film Institute/University of California Press, 2005) with Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, Richard Maxwell, and Ting Wang. He authored the monograph Republic on the Wire: Cable Television, Pluralism, and the Politics of New Technologies, 1948-1984 (Rutgers University Press, 2017). Peer-reviewed articles feature 'Desperate Citizens and Good Samaritans: Neoliberalism and Makeover Reality TV' (Television & New Media, 2008) and 'From Net Neutrality to Net Equality' (International Journal of Communication, 2016). McMurria contributed a book review of 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America (Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2024). He spoke at Palomar College Media Days in 2019.