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An economic history of film /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sedgwick, John, Pokorny, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Routledge explorations in economic history ; 26.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.