Peter Arne Johnson is a PhD candidate in media studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Pete's current research focuses on U.S. film and television history, media industry studies, technological change, and transnational financial flows. His dissertation addresses the development of deficit financing in the U.S. television industry between the 1950s and the 2010s and considers the financialization of the non-financial firm. His work has been published in Democratic Communiqué, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and Media Industries Journal. He holds a BS in Business Administration, a BS in Film & Television, and an MFA in Film & Television Studies from Boston University, where he wrote a thesis on the financial commodity audience prevalent in television's political economy.