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Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession

Autor Professor J.D. Connor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2020
Money is Hollywood's great theme-but money laundered into something else, something more. Money can be given a particular occasion and career, as box office receipts, casino winnings, tax credits, stock prices, lotteries, inheritances. Or money can become number, and numbers can be anything: pixels, batting averages, votes, likes. Through explorations of all these and more, J.D. Connor's Hollywood Math and Aftermath provides a stimulating and original take on "the equation of pictures," the relationship between Hollywood and economics since the 1970s. 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-fromThe Big ShortandThe Wolf of Wall StreettoEquityandBlackhat, fromMoneyballto12 Years a Slave,TitanictoLost,The ExorcisttoWALLE,Déjà VutoUpstream Color, ContagiontoThe Untouchables,Ferris BuellertoPacific Rim,The AvengerstoThe Village-Hollywood Math and Aftermathis 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

Caracteristici

Provides a map of the movie culture of an important time in American history, the Great Recession

Notă biografică

J.D. Connoris Associate Professor in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, USA. His research focuses on the interplay of art and industry in the contemporary Hollywood system, the history of tape recording, and Kennedy-era media shifts. Connor is the author of the forthcomingThe Studios after the Studios(2015) and on the Steering Committee of Post45 (post45.org).

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Equation of Pictures1. The Economic Image; Hollywood Dataculture and the Moneyball of MoneyballI. Precession: Titanic: It's All on the Screen2. Follow the Money: The Warner '70s3. High Concept the Chicago way: Dan Rostenkowski, Ferris Bueller, Eliot Ness4. Like Some Dummy Corporation You Just Move Around the Board: Tax Credits and Time TravelII. Recession: Two Trailers From the Opening of the Obama Era5. The Biggest Independent Pictures Ever Made 6. Numbers, Stations: Lost and the Digital Turn in U.S. Television7. The Piggies and the Market8. The United States of America v. The Wolf of Wall StreetConclusionBibliographyIndex

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. ReadingAftermathoften 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.
WithHollywood 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.
WithHollywood 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.