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The American Movie Industry
These seventeen essays make up a history of the American film industry. Because film-making entails a special blend of economic and artistic endeavor, Kindem has chosen contributions from experts in a variety of fields--business, law, mass communications, and cinema studies. The organization of this anthology is both chronological and topical. The first three parts of the book basically follow the history of the film industry's marketing strategies, structural changes, and product innovations: from exhibition in Kinetoscope arcades to film "acts" in vaudeville, Nickelodeons, and movie palaces; from states' rights marketing schemes to block booking and chain-store exhibition strategies; from ...
The American Film Industry
Upon its original publication in 1976, The American Film Industry was welcomed by film students, scholars, and fans as the first systematic and unified history of the American movie industry. Now this indispensible anthology has been expanded and revised to include a fresh introductory overview by editor Tino Balio and ten new chapters that explore such topics as the growth of exhibition as big business, the mode of production for feature films, the star as market strategy, and the changing economics and structure of contemporary entertainment companies. The result is a unique collection of essays, more comprehensive and current than ever, that reveals how the American movie industry really worked in a century of constant change-from kinetoscopes and the coming of sound to the star system, 1950s blacklisting, and today's corporate empires.
Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry
This study was undertaken in conjunction with the Motion Picture Research Project. The research was conducted in Hollywood over a period of two years from April 1939 to April 1941.
The Motion Picture Industry (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Motion Picture Industry This book is the result of a study of the motion picture industry begun several years ago. The work was made possible through the generous cooperation of Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, and sincere appreciation is hereby expressed to him for the opportunity thus presented. It is ample evi dence 'of his broad Vision that at no time and under no circumstances has he suggested how the study should be conducted, nor has he in the slightest manner attempted to influence the way in which the material should be pre sented or the conclusions reached. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgot...
