The Political Economy Of Hollywood

Author : James McMahon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000537383

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The Political Economy of Hollywood by James McMahon Pdf

In Hollywood, the goals of art and business are entangled. Directors, writers, actors, and idealistic producers aspire to make the best films possible. These aspirations often interact with the dominant firms that control Hollywood film distribution. This control of distribution is crucial as it enables the firms and other large businesses involved, such as banks that offer financing, to effectively stand between film production and the market. This book analyses the power structure of the Hollywood film business and its general modes of behaviour. More specifically, the work analyses how the largest Hollywood firms attempt to control social creativity such that they can mitigate the financial risks inherent in the art of filmmaking. Controlling the ways people make or watch films, the book argues, is a key element of Hollywood’s capitalist power. Capitalist power—the ability to control, modify, and, sometimes, limit social creation through the rights of ownership—is the foundation of capital accumulation. For the Hollywood film business, capitalist power is about the ability of business concerns to set the terms that will shape the future of cinema. For the major film distributors of Hollywood, these terms include the types of films that will be distributed, the number of films that will be distributed, and the cinematic alternatives that will be made available to the individual moviegoer. Combining theoretical analysis with detailed empirical research on the financial performance of the major Hollywood film companies, the book details how Hollywood’s capitalist goals have clashed with the aesthetic potentials of cinema and ultimately stymied creativity in the pursuit of limiting risk. This sharp critique of the Hollywood machine provides vital reading for students and scholars of political economy, political theory, film studies, and cinema.

Author : David Prindle
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003423899

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Risky Business by David Prindle Pdf

The author has incorporated all the learning and theoretical sophistication of political science yet has written an accessible and colorful book. Full of details and anecdotes, Risky Business will appeal to anyone interested in a more comprehensive understanding of the Hollywood mystique.

Author : Alexandre Bohas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137562388

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The Political Economy of Disney by Alexandre Bohas Pdf

This book sheds new light on the socio-economic impact of multinational corporations. Combining Cultural Studies and International Political Economy, it provides a revealing analysis of the Walt Disney Company, and by extension the wider Hollywood studio system. It does so by examining the cultural and economic forces powering the industry's expansion, the 'civilisation' that Disney disseminates, and the various ways that societies beyond the USA have adopted facets of the Hollywood productions to which they are exposed. Identifying both the strengths and the weaknesses of these transnational firms, it demonstrates the significance of their contribution to American power and predominance.

Author : Arthur De Vany
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415312612

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Hollywood Economics by Arthur De Vany Pdf

Movies expected to perform well can flop, whilst independent movies with low budgets can be wildly successful. In this text, De Vany casts his eye over all aspects of the business to present some intriguing conclusions.

Author : Arthur De Vany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 0203345029

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Hollywood Economics by Arthur De Vany Pdf

Author : Janet Wasko
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0761968148

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How Hollywood Works by Janet Wasko Pdf

This volume details the processes involved in turning raw materials and labour into feature films. Janet Wasko surveys and critiques the policies and structure of the current United States film industry, as well as its relationships to other media industries.

Author : Andrew Calabrese,Colin Sparks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461700357

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Toward a Political Economy of Culture by Andrew Calabrese,Colin Sparks Pdf

Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics in critical political economy studies are well represented here: market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, technological impacts on particular media sectors, information poverty, and media access. The book also features new topics for political economy study, including racism in audience research, the value and need for feminist approaches to political economy studies, and the relationship between the discourse of media finance and the behavior of markets.

Author : Randy Nichols,Gabriela Martinez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429890444

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Political Economy of Media Industries by Randy Nichols,Gabriela Martinez Pdf

This book provides a critical political economic examination of the impact of increasingly concentrated global media industries. It addresses different media and communication industries from around the globe, including film, television, music, journalism, telecommunication, and information industries. The authors use case studies to examine how changing methods of production and distribution are impacting a variety of issues including globalization, environmental devastation, and the shifting role of the State. This collection finds communication at a historical moment in which capitalist control of media and communication is the default status and, so, because of the increasing levels of concentration globally allows those in control to define the default ideological status. In turn, these concentrated media forces are deployed under the guise of entertainment but with a mind towards further concentration and control of the media apparatuses many times in convergence with others

Author : Janet Wasko
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847871657

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How Hollywood Works by Janet Wasko Pdf

This is a book about the US motion picture industry - its structure and policies, its operations and practices. It looks at the processes that are involved in turning raw materials and labor into feature films. It describes the process of film production, distribution, exhibition and retail - a process that involves different markets where materials, labor and products are bought and sold. In other words, this is a book about how Hollywood works - as an industry. How Hollywood Works: - offers an up-to-date survey of the policies and structure of the US film industry - looks at the relationship between the film industry and other media industries - examines the role of the major studios and the other ′players′ - including, law firms, talent agents, and trade unions and guilds - provides access to hard-to-find statistical information on the industry While many books describe the film production and marketing process, they usually do so from an industry perspective and few look at Hollywood critically from within a more general economic, political and social context. By offering just such a critique, Janet Wasko′s text provides a timely and essential analysis of how Hollywood works for all students of film and media.

Author : Toby Miller,Nitin Govil,John McMurria,Richard Maxwell,Ting Wang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715953

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Global Hollywood 2 by Toby Miller,Nitin Govil,John McMurria,Richard Maxwell,Ting Wang Pdf

Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood's apparent artistic success. Takes into consideration recent events affecting Hollywood such as 9/11, US foreign policy and developments in consumer technology.

Author : Anne Rajala,Daniel Lindblom,Matteo Stocchetti
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3631799519

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The Political Economy of Local Cinema: a Critical Introduction by Anne Rajala,Daniel Lindblom,Matteo Stocchetti Pdf

The globalization and digitalization of cultural markets presents formidable challenges for local cinema and storytelling. The essays in this collection address some of these challenges from the perspective of a critical political economy of local cinema. Inspiring these contributions is the effort of supporting local cinema as a form of valuable storytelling that is at risk of market-driven extinction because of the greater commercial viability of global or Hollywood cinema and national cinema.

Author : Lee Grieveson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520291683

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Cinema and the Wealth of Nations by Lee Grieveson Pdf

The silver screen and the gold standard -- The Panama Caper -- Empire of liberty -- Liberty bonds -- The State of extension -- The work of film in the age of Fordist mechanization -- The Pan-American road to happiness and friendship -- Highways of Empire -- League of corporations -- The silver chains of mimesis -- The golden harvest of the silver screen -- Welfare media -- The world of tomorrow' today!

Author : Manjunath Pendakur
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814319998

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Canadian Dreams and American Control by Manjunath Pendakur Pdf

A history of the Canadian film industry from its inception to 1980s, providing a chronological record of the conflicting priorities between American capital, which seeks to shape the Canadian film industry to its own image, and Canada's stated goal, which is to serve the Canadian people with films autonomously conceived, produced, and exhibited.

Author : Jyotsna Kapur,Keith B. Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136701474

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Neoliberalism and Global Cinema by Jyotsna Kapur,Keith B. Wagner Pdf

In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However, the current economic crisis and the subsequent Wall Street bailout in 2008 have brought about a worldwide skepticism regarding the last four decades of economic restructuring and the culture that has accompanied it. In this edited volume, an international ensemble of scholars looks at neoliberalism, both as culture and political economy, in the various cinemas of the world. In essays encompassing the cinemas of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the United States the authors outline how the culture and subjectivities engendered by neoliberalism have been variously performed, contested, and reinforced in these cinemas. The premise of this book is that the cultural and economic logic of neoliberalism, i.e., the radical financialization and market-driven calculations, of all facets of society are symptoms best understood by Marxist theory and its analysis of the central antagonisms and contradictions of capital. Taking a variety of approaches, ranging from political economy, ideological critique, the intersection of aesthetics and politics, social history and critical-cultural theory, this volume offers a fresh, broad-based Marxist analysis of contemporary film/media. Topics include: the global albeit antagonistic nature of neoliberal culture; the search for a new aesthetic and documentary language; the contestation between labor and capital in cultural producion; the political economy of hollywood, and questions of gender, sexuality, and the nation state in relation to neoliberalism.

Author : Yannis Tzioumakis,Claire Molloy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317392453

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The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics by Yannis Tzioumakis,Claire Molloy Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics brings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics. Organised into eight sections - Approaches to Film and Politics; Film, Activism and Opposition; Film, Propaganda, Ideology and the State; The Politics of Mobility; Political Hollywood; Alternative and Independent Film and Politics; The Politics of Cine-geographies and The Politics of Documentary - this collection covers a broad range of topics, including: third cinema, cinema after 9/11, eco-activism, human rights, independent Chinese documentary, film festivals, manifestoes, film policies, film as a response to the post-2008 financial crisis, Soviet propaganda, the impact of neoliberalism on cinema, and many others. It foregrounds the key debates, concepts, approaches and case studies that critique and explain the complex relationship between politics and cinema, discussing films from around the world and including examples from film history as well as contemporary cinema. It also explores the wider relationship between politics and entertainment, examines cinema’s response to political and social transformations and questions the extent to which filmmaking, itself, is a political act.