A Concise Handbook of Movie Industry Economics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9704319 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sougata Poddar (0000-0002-9290-9056, Department of Economics National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 509 |
| Pages | F169-F170 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01069_9.x |
| OpenAlex | W1979853550 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This is a comprehensive guide to the movie industry written with great clarity and incisiveness, which delivers plenty of original and interesting insights palatable to both the specialist in the movie business and avid reader interested in the movie industry. The book first brings its readers through a detailed outline of the momentous historical developments in the Hollywood film industry, tracing the transition and impacts of these changes in shaping the industry's current distribution arrangements and contractual regulations of actors and actresses. Coming from a political economy analysis approach, the first chapter in the compilation offers a refreshing perspective inimitable in the existing literature of motion pictures, where concepts of ‘social change’, ‘social totality’, and ‘ownership and control’ are applied to understand the operations of the movie business. Question like, why are Hollywood films popular with audiences all over the world, is raised with great interest. Political economists are interested in how US films came to dominate international markets, what mechanisms are in place to sustain such market dominance and how the state involved in this process
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |