Towards a comparative economic history of cinema, 1930-1970

Towards a comparative economic history of cinema, 1930-1970 / John Sedgwick, editor.

This book examines the economic circumstances in which films were produced, distributed, exhibited, and consumed during the spoken era of film production until 1970. The periodisation covers the years between the onset of sound and the demise of the phased distribution of films. Films are generally...

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Other Authors: Sedgwick, John, 1952- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2022.
Series:Frontiers in economic history.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Motion picture industry > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
Motion picture audiences > History > 20th century.
Motion picture audiences
Motion picture industry > Economic aspects
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Millions of People Every Day Cinema as part of the quotidian of life (John Sedgwick)
  • Chapter 2. Managing Risk - Key Concepts and Methods (John Sedgwick)
  • Chapter 3. How did the Department of Justice Get it so Wrong? Philadelphia 1935-36: the Stanley Warner Chain, competitive practices, and consumer welfare (Andrew Hanssen)
  • Chapter 4. Comparative Film Popularity in Three English Cities - Bolton, Brighton, and Portsmouth: an exercise in POPSTAT methodology (John Sedgwick)
  • Chapter 5. Popular films in Stockholm during the 1930s: a presentation and discussion of the pioneering work of Leif Furhammar (John Sedgwick)
  • Chapter 6. Dutch films in the Dutch market in the 1930s: A characteristics approach to film popularity (Clara Pafort-Overduin)
  • Chapter 7. Unravelling Australias "Infamous contract system." Evidence from Adelaide, 1942-3. (Dylan Walker)
  • Chapter 8. Film exhibition, distribution, and popularity in German-occupied Belgium (1940-1944): Brussels, Antwerp, and Liege (John Sedgwick)
  • Chapter 9. Five Italian Cities: Comparative analysis of cinema-types, film circulation, and relative popularity in the mid-1950s (John Sedgwick)
  • Chapter 10. Cinemagoers should learn from progressive movies, again and again. Cinemagoing in Czechoslovakia, 1949-52 (John Sedgwick)
  • Chapter 11. It seems to me that the most popular films in the West are very harmful to us: Film Popularity in Poland during the years of High Stalinism (John Sedgwick)
  • Chapter 12. Americanisation in reverse? Hollywood films, international influences, and US audiences, 1946-1965 (Peter Miskell).

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