On Hollywood: The Place, The IndustryWhy is the U.S. motion picture industry concentrated in Hollywood and why does it remain there in the age of globalization? Allen Scott uses the tools of economic geography to explore these questions and to provide a number of highly original answers. The conceptual roots of his analysis go back to Alfred Marshall's theory of industrial districts and pick up on modern ideas about business clusters as sites of efficient and innovative production. |
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... Hollywood majors: corporate ownership relations. 3.3. Schema of the Hollywood motion picture production complex and its external spatial relations. 29 39 43 48 3.4. Motion picture production companies in Southern California. 50 3.5 ...
... major Hollywood distribution companies in relation to the geographic incidence of theater screens in the United States and Canada. 8.2. Number of new feature films released annually in the United States by major and independent ...
... Majors and Independents 41 3.2. Films Released by Majors and Their Subsidiaries, 1980–2000 45 3.3. Top Ten Film Distributors in the United States, 2000 A3.1. SIC and NAICS Codes for Production and Distribution 57 of Motion Pictures and ...
... Hollywood Majors A6.1. Factor Analysis Results: Rotated Component Matrix 7.1. Residential Density as a Function of Distance from Central Hollywood ... Majors, 1980–2000 143 8.3. Average Negative and Marketing Costs, Hollywood Majors, 1980– ...
... Hollywood. Along with Silicon Valley and the business and financial clusters of New York and the City of London, Hollywood must surely rank as one of the most highly developed agglomerations of pro- ductive activity anywhere, and a major ...
Contents
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Origins and Early Growth of the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry | 11 |
A New Map of Hollywood | 35 |
The Other Hollywood Television Program Production | 61 |
Dream Factories Studios Soundstages and Sets | 79 |
The Digital Visual Effects Industry | 95 |
Local Labor Markets in Hollywood | 117 |
Hollywood in America and the World Distribution and Markets | 138 |
Cinema Culture Globalization | 159 |
References | 177 |
Index | 189 |