A Concise Handbook of Movie Industry Economics
本书以清晰透彻的笔触，从政治经济学视角梳理好莱坞电影产业的历史演变、发行安排与合同规制，分析美国电影如何主导国际市场及国家在其中扮演的角色，适合行业专家与普通影迷阅读。
This is a comprehensive guide to the movie industry written with great clarity and incisiveness, which delivers plenty of original and interesting insights palatable to both the specialist in the movie business and avid reader interested in the movie industry. The book first brings its readers through a detailed outline of the momentous historical developments in the Hollywood film industry, tracing the transition and impacts of these changes in shaping the industry's current distribution arrangements and contractual regulations of actors and actresses. Coming from a political economy analysis approach, the first chapter in the compilation offers a refreshing perspective inimitable in the existing literature of motion pictures, where concepts of ‘social change’, ‘social totality’, and ‘ownership and control’ are applied to understand the operations of the movie business. Question like, why are Hollywood films popular with audiences all over the world, is raised with great interest. Political economists are interested in how US films came to dominate international markets, what mechanisms are in place to sustain such market dominance and how the state involved in this process.