An economic history of film

An economic history of film / edited by John Sedgwick and Michael Pokorny.

The economics of the movie industry has been curiously neglected by scholars, especially given the material circumstances in which film has been produced, distributed and exhibited in capitalist economies and its central importance in the lives of the huge numbers attracted to it as a commodity. Thi...

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Other Authors: Sedgwick, John, Pokorny, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Routledge explorations in economic history ; 26.
Subjects:
Motion picture industry > Economic aspects > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
Motion picture industry > Economic aspects
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • The characteristics of film as a commodity / John Sedgwick and Michael Pokorny
  • America's master : the European film industry in the United States, 1907-1920 / Gerben Bakker
  • Stars and stories : how films became branded products / Gerben Bakker
  • Revenue sharing and the coming of sound / F. Andrew Hanssen
  • The block booking of films re-examined / F. Andrew Hanssen
  • Warner Bros. in the inter-war years : strategic responses to the risk environment of filmmaking / Michael Pokorny and John Sedgwick
  • Product differentiation at the movies : Hollywood 1946 to 1965 / John Sedgwick
  • Movie stars and the distribution of financially successful films in the motion-picture industry / Steven Albert
  • Movie contracts : is "net" "gross"? / Mark Weinstein
  • Hollywood and the risk environment of movie production in the 1990s / Michael Pokorny
  • Understanding Hollywood's organisation and continuing success / Keith Acheson and Christopher J. Maule.

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