Towards A Comparative Economic History Of Cinema 1930 1970

Author : John Sedgwick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
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Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031057700

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Towards a Comparative Economic History of Cinema, 1930–1970 by John Sedgwick Pdf

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 appreciated for their aesthetic qualities. But they are also commodities. This work of economic history presents a new approach, considering consumption behaviour as significant as supply-side decision-making. Audiences’ tastes are considered central, with box-office an indicator of what they liked. The POPSTAT Index of Film Popularity is used as a proxy where box office knowledge is missing. Comparative analysis is conducted through the tool RelPOP. The book comprises original case studies covering film consumption in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States during the 1930s; Australia and occupied Belgium during the Second World War; and Italy, the United States, Poland and Czechoslovakia during the Post-war. An overriding theme is how the classical American business model, which emerged during the 1910s linking production to distribution and exhibition, adapted to local circumstances, including the two countries behind the Iron Curtain during the years of ‘High Stalinism’.

Author : John Sedgwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031057716

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Towards a Comparative Economic History of Cinema, 1930-1970 by John Sedgwick Pdf

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 appreciated for their aesthetic qualities. But they are also commodities. This work of economic history presents a new approach, considering consumption behaviour as significant as supply-side decision-making. Audiences' tastes are considered central, with box-office an indicator of what they liked. The POPSTAT Index of Film Popularity is used as a proxy where box office knowledge is missing. Comparative analysis is conducted through the tool RelPOP. The book comprises original case studies covering film consumption in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States during the 1930s; Australia and occupied Belgium during the Second World War; and Italy, the United States, Poland and Czechoslovakia during the Post-war. An overriding theme is how the classical American business model, which emerged during the 1910s linking production to distribution and exhibition, adapted to local circumstances, including the two countries behind the Iron Curtain during the years of 'High Stalinism'. .

Author : Daniela Treveri Gennari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031387890

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The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories by Daniela Treveri Gennari Pdf

Author : John Sedgwick,Michael Pokorny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134344307

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An Economic History of Film by John Sedgwick,Michael Pokorny Pdf

The movie industry boomed in the twentieth century, and is still going strong today. However, the economics of movies has been curiously under explored until now. Innovative and informative, this accessible book, which includes contributions from some of the leading experts in the area, is a huge step forward in our understanding of this important topic.

Author : Eric Rhode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987228183

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A History of the cinema - from its origins to 1970 by Eric Rhode Pdf

Author : Gerben Bakker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 1107202140

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Entertainment Industrialised by Gerben Bakker Pdf

"Entertainment Industrialised is the first study to compare the emergence and economic development of the film industry in Britain, France and the United States between 1890 and 1940. Gerben Bakker investigates the commercialisation and industrialisation of live entertainment in the nineteenth century and analyses the subsequent arrival of motion pictures, revealing that their emergence triggered a process of incessant creative destruction, development and productivity growth that continues in the entertainment industry today. He argues that cinema industrialised live entertainment by automating it, standardising it and making it tradeable, a process that was largely demand led, and that a quality race between firms changed the structure of the international entertainment market. While a hundred years ago, European enterprises were supplying half of all films shown in the US, the quality race resulted in today's industry, in which a handful of American companies dominate the global entertainment business."--Publisher's description

Author : Ian Charles Jarvie
Publisher : London : Routledge & K. Paul
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015003838946

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Towards a Sociology of the Cinema by Ian Charles Jarvie Pdf

For students of the film and sociologists.

Author : Richard Butsch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781509535866

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Screen Culture by Richard Butsch Pdf

In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive and cohesive examination of screen media and screen culture globally – from film and television to computers and smart phones – as they have evolved through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on an enormous trove of research on the USA, Britain, France, Egypt, West Africa, India, China, and other nations, Butsch tells the stories of how media have developed in these nations and what global forces linked them. He assesses the global ebb and flow of media hegemony and the cultural differences in audiences' use of media. Comparisons across time and space reveal two linked developments: the rise and fall of American cultural hegemony, and the consistency among audiences from different countries in the way they incorporate screen entertainments into their own cultures. Screen Culture offers a masterful, integrated global history that invites media scholars to see this landscape in a new light. Deeply engaging, the book is also suitable for students and interested general readers.

Author : Adam Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134027583

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Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective by Adam Crawford Pdf

This book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies. Through a comparative analysis of developments in crime prevention policies across a number of European countries, contributors address questions such as: How has 'the preventive turn' in crime control policies been implemented in various different countries and what have its implications been? What lessons have been learnt over the ensuing years and what are the major trends influencing the direction of development? What does the future hold for crime prevention and community safety? Contributors explore and assess the different models adopted and the shifting emphasis accorded to differing strategies over time. The book also seeks to compare and contrast different approaches as well as the nature and extent of policy transfer between jurisdictions and the internationalisation of key ideas, strategies and theories of crime prevention and community safety.

Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015002278268

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The American Film Industry by Tino Balio Pdf

Upon its original publication in 1976, "The American Film Industry" was welcomed by film students, scholars, and fans as the first systematic and unified history of the American movie industry. Now this indispensible anthology has been expanded and revised to include a fresh introductory overview by editor Tino Balio and ten new chapters that explore such topics as the growth of exhibition as big business, the mode of production for feature films, the star as market strategy, and the changing economics and structure of contemporary entertainment companies. The result is a unique collection of essays, more comprehensive and current than ever, that reveals how the American movie industry really worked in a century of constant change-from kinetoscopes and the coming of sound to the star system, 1950s blacklisting, and today's corporate empires.

Author : Judith Thissen,Clemens Zimmermann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844578481

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Cinema Beyond the City by Judith Thissen,Clemens Zimmermann Pdf

Cinema is often perceived as a metropolitan medium – an entertainment product of the big city and for the big city. Yet film exhibitors have been bringing moving pictures to towns and villages since the early days of itinerant shows. This volume presents for the first time an exploration of the social, cultural and economic dynamics of film culture in the European countryside. Spanning more than a century of film exhibition from the early twentieth-century to the present day, Cinema Beyond the City examines the role that movie-going has played in small-town and rural communities across Europe. It documents an amazing diversity of sites and situations that are relevant for understanding historical and current patterns in film consumption. In chapters written by leading scholars and young academics, interdisciplinary research is used to address key questions about access, economic viability, audience behaviour, film programming and the cultural flows between cities and hinterlands. With its wide range of regional studies and innovative methodological approaches, the collection will be of interest not only to film historians, but also to scholars in the fields of urban history, rural studies and cultural geography.

Author : Lee Grieveson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781648250279

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Decolonizing African Studies by Toyin Falola Pdf

Introduction: The Decolonial Moments -- Epistemologies and Methodologies -- Decoloniality and Decolonizing Knowledge -- Eurocentrism and Intellectual Imperialism -- Epistemologies of Intellectual Liberation -- Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa -- Decolonizing Research Methodology -- Oral Tradition: Cultural Analysis and Epistemic Value -- Agencies and Voices -- Voices of Decolonization -- Voices of Decoloniality -- Decoloniality: A Critique -- Women's Voices on Decolonization -- Empowering Marginal Voices: LGBTQ and African Studies -- Intellectual Spaces -- Decolonizing the African Academy -- Decolonizing Knowledge Through Language -- Decolonizing of African Literature -- Identity and the African Feminist Writers -- Decolonizing African Aesthetics -- Decolonizing African History -- Decolonizing Africa Religion -- Decolonizing African Philosophy -- African Futurism.

Author : Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107038462

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain by Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson Pdf

A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain, Volume 2 re-examines Britain's economic growth and decline during the twentieth century.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786725298

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The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson Pdf

In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on naïve assumptions of German aims—and England's entry into the war transformed a Continental conflict into a world war, which they then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces.That the war was wicked, horrific, inhuman,is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. More British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War; indeed, the total British fatalities in that single battle—some 420,000—exceeds the entire American fatalities for both World Wars. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with enthusiasm. Ferguson vividly brings back to life this terrifying period, not through dry citation of chronological chapter and verse but through a series of brilliant chapters focusing on key ways in which we now view the First World War.For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them, and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper nor more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.