Hollywood math and aftermath : the economic image and the digital recession

Hollywood math and aftermath : the economic image and the digital recession / J.D. Connor.

Money is Hollywood's great theme--but money laundered into something else, something more. Money can be given a particular occasion and career, as box office receipts, casino winnings, tax credits, stock prices, lotteries, inheritances. Or money can become number, and numbers can be anything: p...

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Main Author: Connor, J. D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Money in motion pictures.
Motion picture industry > Economic aspects > United States.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
Money in motion pictures
Motion picture industry > Economic aspects
Motion pictures
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the equation of pictures
  • The economic image: Hollywood dataculture and the moneyball of Moneyball
  • Precession: Titanic: it's all on the screen
  • Follow the money: the Warner '70s
  • High concept the Chicago way: Dan Rostenkowski, Ferris Bueller, Eliot Ness
  • Like some dummy corporation you just move around the board: tax credits and time travel
  • Recession: two trailers from the opening of the Obama era
  • The biggest independent pictures ever made
  • Numbers, stations: Lost and the digital turn in U.S. television
  • The piggies and the market
  • The United States of America v. The wolf of Wall Street
  • Conclusion.

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