Modern Hollywood is dominated by a handful of studios: Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. Threatened by independents in the 1970s, they returned to power in the 1980s, ruled unquestioned in the 1990s, and in the new millennium are again beseiged. But in the heyday of this new classical era, the major studios movies -- their stories and styles -- were astonishingly precise biographies of the studios that made them. Movies became product placements for their studios, advertising them to the industry, to their employees, and to the public at large. If we want to know...
Modern Hollywood is dominated by a handful of studios: Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. Threatened by independents in the...
Hollywood Math and Aftermath begins by exploring Hollywood's fictional numbers in normal circumstances - the period stretching from about 1970 until the onset of the Great Recession in 2008 - and then traces some of the consequences of economic collapse. The first half of this book explains the math and the second half traces the aftermath.
Introducing each section with a case study, J.D. Connor first justifies his hyperattention to Hollywood finances through films when the studio was most intensively reimagining its place within the changed macroeconomy of the Nixon and...
Hollywood Math and Aftermath begins by exploring Hollywood's fictional numbers in normal circumstances - the period stretching from about 19...
