Entertainment industrialised
Subtitle: the emergence of the international film industry, 1890-1940
By: Gerben Bakker.
Series: Cambridge studies in economic history. Second series
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9780521898546
Subjects: Motion picture industry -- History
Description: "Entertainment Industrialised is the first study to compare the emergence and economic development of the film industries in Britain, France and the United States between 1890 and 1940. Gerben Bakker investigates the commercialisation and industrialisation of live entertainment in the nineteenth century and analyses the subsequent arrival of motion pictures, revealing that their emergence triggered a process of incessant creative destruction, development and productivity growth that continues in the entertainment industry today. He argues that cinema industrialised live entertainment by automating it, standardising it and making it tradeable, a process that was largely demand-led, and that a quality race between firms changed the structure of the international entertainment market. While a hundred years ago, European enterprises were supplying half of all films shown in the USA, the quality race resulted in today's industry, in which a handful of American companies dominate the global entertainment business."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.