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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... United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Scott, Allen John. On Hollywood: the place, the industry/Allen J. Scott ...
... United States, 1921–37. 3.1. Schema of basic organizational possibilities in industrial systems. 3.2. The Hollywood ... United States. 51 3.6. Number of establishments in the motion picture industry, Los Angeles County and the United ...
... United States and Canada. 8.2. Number of new feature films released annually in the United States by major and independent distributors. 8.3. Distribution of box-office returns for domestic 124 125 131 141 144 exhibition, 2000. 148 8.4 ...
... United States and the States of California and New York, 1921–37 26 3.1. Feature Films Released in the United States by Majors and Independents 41 3.2. Films Released by Majors and Their Subsidiaries, 1980–2000 45 3.3. Top Ten Film ...
... United States According to the Final Product Categories for Which They Provide Inputs 6.7. Simple and Weighted Average Percentages of Firms' Output Sold on Different Markets 6.8. Simple and Weighted Average Percentages of Firms' Outputs ...
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 |