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Out-of-control costs. Box office bombs that should have been foreseen. A mania for sequels at the expense of innovation. Blockbusters of ever-diminishing merit. What other industry could continue like this--and succeed as spectacularly as Hollywood has? The American movie industry's extraordinary success at home and abroad--in the face of dire threats from broadcast television and a wealth of other entertainment media that have followed--is David Waterman's focus in this book, the first full-length economic study of the movie industry in over forty years.

Combining historical and...

In this study of identity in Doris Lessing's space fiction, Waterman maintains that Lessing's writing identifies the universal problem--society's division into competitive and predatory groups--and places it outside the bounds of time and space, encouraging a social critique.