Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System

2024/09/02 by Peter Miskell
Arts and Humanities · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Advertising #Art #Art History and Market Analysis #Art history #Business #Cinema and Media Studies #Cultural Industries and Urban Development #Distribution (mathematics) #Hollywood #Mathematics #Studio #Visual arts

paper · doi:10.1080/00076791.2024.2389677

published in Business History 68(3), 757-759 (Taylor & Francis)

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Abstract

In Playing the Percentages Derek Long makes a compelling case that systems of distribution should be seen as central to the history of the film industry, and of media industries more widely. Media ...

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