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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... inputs to the case-study television show. 5.1. The Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, CA. 5.2. The geographic distribution of film studios in Los Angeles. 5.3. The geographic distribution of set design and construction firms in Los ...
... 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 Sold to Individual Hollywood Majors A6.1. Factor Analysis Results: Rotated ...
... inputs to new rounds of cultural production and commercialization, leading in turn to further symbolic elaboration of the urban field, and so on. Synopsis and Envoi These introductory remarks set the scene for the detailed investigation ...
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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 |