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Hollywood's Road to Riches
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2005
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This book shows how, beginning in the 1950s, a largely predictable business has been transformed into a volatile and complex multimedia enterprise now commanding over 80 percent of the world’s film business. Waterman asks how the economic forces leading to this success have combined to change the kinds of movies Hollywood produces.
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Hollywood's Road to Riches focuses on the details and peculiarities of the film business with a depth and breadth that no one else provides. Combining knowledge of facts and institutions with insightful economic analyses makes the book exceptional.
-- Steven S. Wildman, Michigan State University
-- Steven S. Wildman, Michigan State University
Hollywood's Road to Riches is informative, intelligent, and even entertaining.
-- Michael Riordan, Columbia University
-- Michael Riordan, Columbia University
With box office returns slumping, Waterman has produced a timely study of Tinseltown's development since the end of World War II.
-- Roy Liebman Library Journal
-- Roy Liebman Library Journal
[Hollywood's Road to Riches] provide[s] a thorough economic account of how American film studios and their predecessors have exploited our appetite for movies over the past 60-plus years.
-- David Ondaatje Times Higher Education Supplement
-- David Ondaatje Times Higher Education Supplement
No less artful are the inspired, often Byzantine economics that have sustained the film industry for more than a century, which prove a surprisingly engrossing topic in David Waterman's Hollywood's Road to Riches.
-- J. David Slocum Playboy
-- J. David Slocum Playboy
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Figures and Tables
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Preface
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Introduction: American Success
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1. The Players
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2. Television: A Parting of the Ways
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3. The Pay Media: A Shower of Money
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4. Controlling the Release Sequence
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5. Rising American Dominance
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6. What Has Hollywood Done with the Money?
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7. Hollywood’s Digital Future
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A. Market Shares of Domestic Box Office/ Rentals and Video Revenues
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B. Stability of World Theatrical Rentals, 1948–1975
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C. U.S. Distributor Revenue by Source
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D. Prices, Distributor Revenue, and Viewing Estimates, 1948, 1975, and 2002
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E. Video Windows, 1988–2002
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F. Comparative Analysis of Movie Industries and Trade in the United States and the EUJ5 Countries, Statistical Data, 1950–2003
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G. Determinants of U.S. Box Office Market Shares in the EUJ5, 1950–2003
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H. Movie Production Costs and Animated Movie Data
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I. Motion Picture Industry Employment
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J. Credits Analysis, Top Ten Movies, 1971 and 2001
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K. Movie Genre Analysis
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Notes
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Index
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