This study examines the complex relationship between movie budgeting and the creative process in Hollywood filmmaking. To understand the effects of this relationship on the finished product, several films are analyzed throughout pre-production, production and post-production. These stages of filmmaking are further divided into categories for each case in order to reveal examples of potential conflicts that arise between investors and creators. A case study approach is guided by theories of the production of culture, which state that creative products manufactured in the cultural industry must...

International trade often inspires intense conflict between workers and their employers. In this book, Adam Dean studies the conditions under which labor and capital collaborate in support of the same trade policies. Dean argues that capital-labor agreement on trade policy depends on the presence of 'profit-sharing institutions'. He tests this theory through case studies from the United States, Britain, and Argentina in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; they offer a revisionist history placing class conflict at the center of the political economy of trade. Analysis of data...

This book explores the role of class conflict in the history of international trade, as well as contemporary globalization.