Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession
Autor Professor J.D. Connoren Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2020
Touched off by an engagement with the work of Gilles Deleuze, Connor demonstrates the centrality of the economic image to Hollywood narrative. More than just a thematic study, this is a conceptual history of the industry that stretches from the dawn of the neoclassical era through the Great Recession and beyond. Along the way, Connor explores new concepts for cinema studies: precession and recession, pervasion and staking, ostension and deritualization.
Enlivened by a wealth of case studies-from The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street to Equity and Blackhat, from Moneyball to 12 Years a Slave, Titanic to Lost, The Exorcist to WALLE, Déjà Vu to Upstream Color, Contagion to The Untouchables, Ferris Bueller to Pacific Rim, The Avengers to The Village-Hollywood Math and Aftermath is a bravura portrait of the industry coming to terms with its own numerical underpinnings.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501362248
ISBN-10: 1501362240
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 96 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1501362240
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 96 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Equation of Pictures
1. The Economic Image; Hollywood Dataculture and the Moneyball of Moneyball
I. Precession: Titanic: It's All on the Screen
2. Follow the Money: The Warner '70s
3. High Concept the Chicago way: Dan Rostenkowski, Ferris Bueller, Eliot Ness
4. Like Some Dummy Corporation You Just Move Around the Board: Tax Credits and Time Travel
II. Recession: Two Trailers From the Opening of the Obama Era
5. The Biggest Independent Pictures Ever Made
6. Numbers, Stations: Lost and the Digital Turn in U.S. Television
7. The Piggies and the Market
8. The United States of America v. The Wolf of Wall Street
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: The Equation of Pictures
1. The Economic Image; Hollywood Dataculture and the Moneyball of Moneyball
I. Precession: Titanic: It's All on the Screen
2. Follow the Money: The Warner '70s
3. High Concept the Chicago way: Dan Rostenkowski, Ferris Bueller, Eliot Ness
4. Like Some Dummy Corporation You Just Move Around the Board: Tax Credits and Time Travel
II. Recession: Two Trailers From the Opening of the Obama Era
5. The Biggest Independent Pictures Ever Made
6. Numbers, Stations: Lost and the Digital Turn in U.S. Television
7. The Piggies and the Market
8. The United States of America v. The Wolf of Wall Street
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
One of the more original and illuminating explorations of commercial film and television production . Connor is as funny as he is smart, and he knows that taking the business of movies seriously will involve some ludicrous scenarios. Reading Aftermath often provides the insider thrill of pulling the curtain back to get a glimpse of how the sausage gets made.
This is a rare book that provides an entirely new way of thinking about Hollywood and the 'equation of pictures.' Eloquent and methodologically aware, JD Connor provides deft analysis of the internalized relation of film to money, excavating the economic image of movies and TV shows with killing insight. For anyone seeking yield in the study of media industries and the stories they tell, this book is worth serious investment.
With Hollywood Math and Aftermath, Connor establishes himself as the premier quantum economist of contemporary Hollywood. Bringing film and TV studios' financial logic into dialogue with Deleuzian theory and his own imaginative capital through a series of dexterous case studies spanning the past 50 years, Connor gives new meaning to creative accounting, yielding a profitable, balanced account of industry practices, corporate self-inscription and the politics of entertainment finance.
With Hollywood Math and Aftermath, J.D. Connor provides an original, provocative perspective on Conglomerate Hollywood's evolving practices and products. At once historical, philosophical, and industrial in scope, Connor creatively accounts for Hollywood's financial activities in a compelling set of case studies.
Deciding where the numbers end and art begins is a mug's game that writers have been trying to play with Hollywood almost since the birth of cinema itself. J. D. Connor's terrifically provocative new book should end this game for once and all.
This is a rare book that provides an entirely new way of thinking about Hollywood and the 'equation of pictures.' Eloquent and methodologically aware, JD Connor provides deft analysis of the internalized relation of film to money, excavating the economic image of movies and TV shows with killing insight. For anyone seeking yield in the study of media industries and the stories they tell, this book is worth serious investment.
With Hollywood Math and Aftermath, Connor establishes himself as the premier quantum economist of contemporary Hollywood. Bringing film and TV studios' financial logic into dialogue with Deleuzian theory and his own imaginative capital through a series of dexterous case studies spanning the past 50 years, Connor gives new meaning to creative accounting, yielding a profitable, balanced account of industry practices, corporate self-inscription and the politics of entertainment finance.
With Hollywood Math and Aftermath, J.D. Connor provides an original, provocative perspective on Conglomerate Hollywood's evolving practices and products. At once historical, philosophical, and industrial in scope, Connor creatively accounts for Hollywood's financial activities in a compelling set of case studies.
Deciding where the numbers end and art begins is a mug's game that writers have been trying to play with Hollywood almost since the birth of cinema itself. J. D. Connor's terrifically provocative new book should end this game for once and all.