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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... global cities. The present volume picks up on these themes and reexamines them in an extended essay on the economic geography of the motion picture industry of Hollywood. Along with Silicon Valley and the business and financial clusters ...
... global markets in entertainment. What is of special interest in the present instance is the circumstance that the outputs of Hollywood have both a cultural and an economic meaning. They are, in particular, artifacts that work powerfully ...
... global cultural economy, and they are the sites of diverse creative industries such as publishing, fashion, music, architecture, graphic arts, and, of course, film. Cultural-products industries, in short, are preeminently attracted to ...
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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 |