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Paul McDonald is Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Video and DVD Industries and The Star System: Hollywood’s Production of Popular Identities and co-editor for the International Screen Industries series from the British Film Institute.Janet Wasko is the Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon. She is the author of How Hollywood Works, Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy, and Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen. She also edited A Companion to Television and Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audience Project.
“Covers all levels of motion pictures from a business perspective … .This book examines the industry in contemporary marketing terms, and each essay clearly explains another aspect of American film as a business. <i>THE CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY</i> is a truly indispensable book, and a pioneering effort in understanding cinema’s business aspects. It’s thorough study of the financial side of motion pictures, complete with full lists of sources after each insightful essay, is fascinating, enlightening, and instructive.” (<i>RogueCinema.com</i>, December 2008)
- Includes important discussions of the industry’s labour and star systems, as well as intellectual property and state relations
- Considers the role of independent producers, the global marketplace for Hollywood product, corporate changes, and various new media windows, including video, DVD to cable, satellite, and online channels of delivery
- Brings together an international team of leading film scholars
- Offers a balanced and fresh approach to this important contemporary period in Hollywood
List of Figures viii
List of Tables xii
Acknowledgments xiii
Notes on Contributors xiv
Introduction: The New Contours of the Hollywood Film Industry 1
Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko
Part I The Structure Of The Industry 11
1 The Studio System and Conglomerate Hollywood 13
Tom Schatz
2 Financing and Production: Creating the Hollywood Film Commodity 43
Janet Wasko
3 Distribution and Marketing in Contemporary Hollywood 63
Philip Drake
4 Theatrical Exhibition: Accelerated Cinema 83
Charles Acland
5 Ancillary Markets – Television: From Challenge to Safe Haven 106
Eileen R. Meehan
6 Ancillary Markets – Video and DVD: Hollywood Retools 120
Frederick Wasser
7 Ancillary Markets – Video Games: Promises and Challenges of an Emerging Industry 132
Randy Nichols
8 Ancillary Markets – Recorded Music: Charting the Rise and Fall of the Soundtrack Album 143
Jeff Smith
Part II Industry Dynamics 153
9 Labor: The Effects of Media Concentration on the Film and Television Workforce 155
Susan Christopherson
10 The Star System: The Production of Hollywood Stardom in the Post-Studio Era 167
Paul McDonald
11 Hollywood and the State: The American Film Industry Cartel in the Age of Globalization 182
Manjunath Pendakur
12 Hollywood and Intellectual Property 195
Ronald V. Bettig
Part III International Territories 207
13 Hollywood and the World: Export or Die 209
John Trumpbour
14 Britain: Hollywood, UK 220
Paul McDonald
15 France: A Story of Love and Hate – French and American Cinema in the French Audiovisual Markets 232
Joel Augros
16 Germany: Hollywood and the Germans – A Very Special Relationship 240
Peter Krämer
17 Italy: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Market 251
Krishna P. Jayakar and David Waterman
18 Latin America: How Mexico and Argentina Cope and Cooperate with the Behemoth of the North 264
Tamara L. Falicov
19 East Asia: For Better or Worse 277
John A. Lent
20 India: Hollywood’s Domination, Extinction, and Re-animation (with thanks to Jurassic Park) 285
Nitin Govil
21 Australia and New Zealand: Expats in Hollywood and Hollywood South 295
David Newman
Index 307
The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry is a collection of essays by leading scholars that examine the U.S. film industry as an international phenomenon, from the l980s to present day. It explores a host of challenges and changes facing Hollywood, and includes important discussions of the industry’s labor and star systems, as well as intellectual property and state relations. Essays consider the role of independent producers, the global marketplace for Hollywood product, corporate changes, and various new media windows, including video, DVD to cable, satellite, and online channels of delivery.
Offering a balanced, fresh, and international approach to the important contemporary period in Hollywood, this text is designed specifically for classroom use in undergraduate and graduate level film courses.
Contributors include: Paul McDonald, Janet Wasko, Tom Schatz, Philip Drake, Charles Acland, Eileen R. Meehan, Frederick Wasser, Randy Nichols, Jeff Smith, Susan Christopherson, Manjunath Pendakur, Ronald V. Bettig, John Trumpbour, Joel Augros, Peter Kramer, Krishna P. Jayakar, David Waterman, Tamara L. Falicov, John A. Lent, Nitin Govil, and David Newman.
–Richard Maltby, Flinders University
"The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry does well to highlight the evolving 'global Hollywood,' the American film industry’s truly multinational scale and scope. Of particular interest are the book’s several essays on so-called ancillary industries like videogames and music, which give readers a good, long look at a film industry that today concerns itself with a lot more than just making movies."
–Jon Lewis, Professor, Oregon State University
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Paul McDonald is Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Video and DVD Industries and The Star System: Hollywood’s Production of Popular Identities and co-editor for the International Screen Industries series from the British Film Institute.Janet Wasko is the Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon. She is the author of How Hollywood Works, Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy, and Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen. She also edited A Companion to Television and Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audience Project.