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book		British national cinema / Sarah Street London New York: Routledge, 1997. Call No: 71(41) STR Author: Street, Sarah Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. UK; STAR SYSTEM. UK; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. UK Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-216) and indexes ISBN: 0415067367 (pbk.); 0415067359 (hbk.) LON: 12665717 More info
book		Broadway and Hollywood : a history of economic interaction / Robert McLaughlin New York: Arno Press, 1974. Call No: 206[792] MCL Author: McLaughlin, Robert Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Arno Press PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 302 p. ; 24 cm Series: Dissertations on film series (Arno Press cinema program) Subject: THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1970.; Bibliography: p. 290-302 ISBN: 0405048734 Contents: -- list of tables -- introduction -- 1: the rise of the motion picture industry: the external economic impact on the theatre -- 2: internal involvement and reaction: the early development of economic interrelationships, 1912-13 to 1926-27 -- 3: the advent of the talkies: further economic adjustments, 1927-28 to 1934-35 -- 4: a trend toward peaceful coexistence: growing economic interaction, 1935-36 to 1945-46 -- 5: the age of television, part 1: economic change and adjustment, 1946-47 to 1969-70 -- the age of television, part 2: broadway - hollywood interaction, 1946-47 to 1969-70 -- conclusion -- appendix -- bibliography -- More info
book		Cinema and the wealth of nations : media, capital, and the liberal world system / Lee Grievson Oakland, California: University of California Press, Call No: 203(73) GRI Author: Grievson, Lee Edition: 2018 Place: Oakland, California Publisher: University of California Press PhysDes: xvi, 466 pages : illustrated ; 24cm Subject: ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. US; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; FINANCING. USA; INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION. USA Summary: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media, principally in the form of cinema, was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson shows how media was used to encode liberal political and economic power during the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic nation and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been—and continues to be—brutally violent, unequal, and destructive. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780520291690 Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- -- 1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard -- 2. The Panama Caper -- 3. Empire of Liberty -- 4. Liberty Bonds -- 5. The State of Extension -- 6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization -- 7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship -- 8. Highways of Empire -- 9. League of Corporations -- 10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis -- 11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen -- 12. Welfare Media -- 13. The World of Tomorrow—Today! -- -- Notes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index More info
Interim book		A competitive cinema / Terence Kelly with Graham Norton and George Perry London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1966. Call No: 201 (41) KEL Author: Kelly, Terence; Norton, Graham; Perry, George Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs PubDate: 1966 PhysDes: 204 p. : 23 cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; GOVERNMENT AID. UK; NATIONAL CONTENT. UNITED KINGDOM; EXHIBITION. UK; BOX OFFICE; DISTRIBUTION; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCES; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK; EDUCATION, FILM. UK; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. UK; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. UK; BRITISH LION; NATIONAL FILM FINANCE CORPORATION Notes: Includes bibliography and index More info
book		Creative industries / John Hartley (editor) Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Call No: 408.3 HAR Author: Hartley, John (editor) Source: AT Place: Malden, MA ; Oxford Publisher: Blackwell Publishing PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: xvii, 414 p. ; 23 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY GAMES. AUSTRALIA; MEDIA; MEDIA; TRADE FAIRS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS Summary: Bringing together ground-breaking essays from across the disciplinary spectrum, "Creative Industries" chronicles how culture is produced, packaged, and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world. This is the first systematic analysis of the challenge of the creative industries in a world where innovation and risk are requirements for both economic and cultural enterprise, where knowledge and ideas drive wealth creation and social modernization, and where globalization and new technologies are the material of everyday life and experience. Thirty essays and new contexualizing chapters by leading international scholars cover several domains, including multimedia, publishing, TV production, urban development, and games. Each of the six sections is edited by a specialist, making this a useful, engaging, and thought- provoking collection of the very best scolarship on modern creative culture [ Taken from the back of the book.] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 1405101474; 1405101482 (pbk.) More info
book		Doing business with Australia : producer offset and co-productions / Screen Australia [Woolloomooloo, N.S.W.]: Screen Australia, January 2014. Call No: 205.31(94) SCR Author: Screen Australia Source: AT Place: [Woolloomooloo, N.S.W.] Publisher: Screen Australia PubDate: January 2014 PhysDes: 51 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm. Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCING. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: "Screen Australia has been Australia's primary screen agency since 1 July 2008 ... Screen Australia encourages Australian and international producers to work together. It administers the International Co-production Program and the Producer Offset. The Producer Offset has become an important component of financing Australian films ..."--Verso cover. More info
book		An economic history of film / John Sedgewick and Michael Pokorny (ed) Oxon: Routledge, 2005. Call No: 203 ECO Author: Sedgewick, J. (ed) Pokorny, M (ed) Source: UK Place: Oxon Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 352p. ; 25 cm Subject: ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. US ISBN: 0415324920 More info
subject clippings file		ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA More info
book		The economics of film and television in Australia / Simon Molloy, Barry Burgan Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 1993. Call No: 213(94) MOL Author: Molloy, S. F. (Simon Francis); Burgan, Barry CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission; South Australian Centre for Economic Studies Place: Sydney Publisher: Australian Film Commission PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 133 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FINANCING. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA Notes: "The South Australian Centre for Economic Studies"--Cover; Bibliography: p. [121]-[123] ISBN: 0642197628 LON: 10415095 More info
journal article		Empire Intrnational and American Nat'l. Enterprises join American Film Market in Australasian Cinema (Friday, 16/9/1983) vol.12 iss.17 p.2 PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA Summary: Article on Empire International (a European-based production company) and American National Enterprises (an American production and distribution company) joining the American Film Market Association. Brief histories are supplied for each of the three companies. More info
book		Film in the age of digital distribution : the challenge for Australian content / Richard Harris Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency House, 2007. Call No: 203(94) HAR Author: Harris, Richard Source: AT Place: Strawberry Hills, NSW Publisher: Currency House PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: 73 p. ; 21 cm Series: Platform Papers ; no. 12 Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION; DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; FINANCING. AUSTRALIA Summary: "Australian audiovisual production faces an uncertain future. The recent proliferation of new forms of digital delivery is both a promise and a threat to the screen content business and poses challenges to established forms of government intervention." -- Libraries Australia Notes: Also inc. responses to 'A regional state of mind', by Michael Richards and Antonietta Morgillo ISBN: 9780980280203 ISSN: 1449583X More info
Interim book		The film industry in Great Britain : some facts and figures / British Film Academy London: British Film Academy, 1950. Call No: 201(41)(083.4) FIL CorpAuthor: British Film Academy Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Academy PubDate: 1950 PhysDes: [6], 41 p. : tables ; 22 cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. UK More info
book		Hollywood economics : how extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry / Arthur De Vany New York: Routledge, 2005. Call No: 203 DEV Author: De Vany, Arthur Source: UK/US Place: London; New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 308 p. : 23 cm. Series: Contemporary Political Economy Subject: ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; BUSINESS AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; INDUSTRY, FILM; DE VANEY, ARTHUR Summary: Just how risky is the movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman’s claim that “nobody knows anything” really true? Can a star and a big opening change a movie’s risks and return? Do studio executives really earn their huge paychecks? These and many other questions are answered in Hollywood Economics. The book uses powerful analytical models to uncover the wild uncertainty that shapes the industry. The centerpiece of the analysis is the unpredictable and often chaotic dynamic behavior of motion picture audiences. This unique and important book will be of interest to students and researchers involved in the economics of movies, industrial economics and business studies. The book will also be a real eye-opener for film-writers, movie executives, finance and risk management professionals as well as more general movie fans. [Taken from first page of book.] ISBN: 9780415312615 More info
journal article		A long-awaited book now available in Australasian Cinema (29/10/1982) vol.11 iss.19 p.4 PhysDes: Article Subject: LITERATURE, FILM. AUSTRALIA; LITERATURE, FILM; BUSINESS AND THE CINEMA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA; PUBLIC RELATIONS Summary: A review of Sir Asher Joel's book 'Australian Protocol & Procedures'. More info
book		Merchants of Menace : the Business of Horror Cinema / edited by Richard Nowell New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Call No: 735.2:203 MER Author: Nowell, Richard (ed.) Source: US/UK Place: New York Publisher: Bloomsbury PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: xiv, 264 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm Subject: HORROR FILMS; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA; PRODUCTION; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM; DIRECTION; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; DISTRIBUTION; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; SCREAM (US, Wes Craven, 1996); SCREAM 2 (US, Wes Craven, 1997); SCREAM 3 (US, Wes Craven, 2000); SCREAM 4 (US, Wes Craven, 2011) Summary: "Even though horror has been a key component of media output for almost a century, the genre's industrial character remains under explored and poorly understood. Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema responds to a major void in film history by shedding much-needed new light on the economic dimensions of one of the world's most enduring audiovisual forms. Given horror cuts across budgetary categories, industry sectors, national film cultures, and media, Merchants of Menace also promises to expand understandings of the economics of cinema generally. Covering 1930-present, this groundbreaking collection boasts fourteen original chapters from world-leading experts taking as their focus such diverse topics as early zombie pictures, post-WWII chillers, Civil Rights-Era marketing, Hollywood literary adaptations, Australian exploitation, "torture-porn" Auteurs, and twenty-first-century remakes." - Publisher's Website Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued online ISBN: 9781623564209 Contents: -- Production lines, trends, and cycles. "House of horrors": corporate strategy at Universal Pictures in the 1930s / Kyle Edwards -- The undead of Hollywood and poverty row: the influence of studio-era industrial patterns on zombie film production, 1932-46 / Todd K. Platts -- By the book: American horror cinema and horror literature of the late 1960s and 1970s / Peter Hutchings -- Risen from the vaults: recent horror film remakes and the American film industry / Kevin Heffernan -- Monster factory: international dynamics of the Australian horror movie industry / Mark David Ryan -- Film content, style, and themes. "Bad medicine": the psychiatric profession's interventions into the business of postwar horror / Tim Snelson -- Horror film atmosphere as anti-narrative (and vice versa) / Robert Spadoni --"A kind of Bacall quality?: Jamie Lee Curtis, stardom, and gentrifying non-Hollywood horror / Richard Nowell -- "New decade, new rules": rebooting the scream franchise in the digital age / Valerie Wee -- Movie marketing, branding, and distribution. "Hot profits out of cold shivers!": horror, the first run market, and the Hollywood studios, 1938-42 / Mark Jancovich -- Strange enjoyments: the marketing and reception of horror in the civil rights era black press / Mikal J. Gaines -- Bids for distinction: the critical-industrial function of the horror auteur / Joe Tompkins -- Low budgets, no budgets, and digital-video nasties: recent British horror and informal distribution / Johnny Walker -- Hammer 2.0: legacy, modernization, and hammer horror as a heritage brand / Matt Hills -- More info
book		The movie business book / edited by Jason E. Squire Englewood, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, c1983. Call No: 203 MOV Author: Squire, Jason E. Source: US Place: Englewood, New Jersey Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc PubDate: c1983 PhysDes: xviii, 414 p. : ill Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM; BUSINESS AND THE CINEMA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA; DISTRIBUTION; EXHIBITION; PRODUCTION Summary: "The inside story of the creation, financing, making, selling, and exhibiting of movies - as told by Mel Brooks, Robert Evans, William Goldman, Sydney Pollack, and 38 other equally notable members of the movie industry" -- FRONT COVER Notes: First published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c1983; Includes index ISBN: 0136045952 Contents: -- 1: the creators -- 2: the property -- 3: the money -- 4: the management -- 5: the deal -- 6: the shooting -- 7: the selling -- 8: the distributors -- 9: the exhibitors -- 10: the audience -- 11: the future -- index -- More info
book		New opportunities, new structures in film finance 1987 : a major one day seminar 23 April 1987 at the Sebel Town House, Sydney / organised by Prospect Publishing Seminars Sydney: Prospect Publishing Seminars, 1987. Call No: 203(94) NEW Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Prospect Publishing Seminars PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: 30 pages ; 30 cm Subject: BOX OFFICE. AUSTRALIA; CONTRACTS. AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FINANCING. AUSTRALIA; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; INVESTING. AUSTRALIA; TAXES. AUSTRALIA Summary: A compilation of lectures given by speakers at the New Structures in Film Finance 1987 seminar Notes: Accompanied by list of conference delegates; Text of Kim William's speech not actually included in publication ISBN: 0949072109 Donation: Donated by Graeme Wright Contents: Industry positioning statement: Kim Williams [text of speech not actually included] -- The need for new financing structures: John Sexton -- Conventional finance (1): Martin Endelman -- Conventional finance (2): The banker/broker relationship - a case study: Bill Raper and Ian Johnson -- Creative finance (1): Daniel Martinez -- Creative finance (2): the industry view: David Court -- Tax based finance: Kevin Munro -- Australian Market Place panel session More info
journal article		Variety- Australia/New Zealand Section in Variety (10/1988) vol.332 iss.13 p.428-438 PhysDes: Serial Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. NEW ZEALAND; BOX OFFICE. AUSTRALIA; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; YEAR MY VOICE BROKE, THE (AT, John Duigan, 1987) Summary: Various articles focusing on Australia and New Zealand film industries, with particular focus on the 1987 economic crash and the subsequent industry fall-out and recovery. Articles cover marketing, investing in films, current productions, and box office. Includes images of Australian advertisment. More info
book		What price a creative economy? / Stuart Cunningham Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency House, 2006. Call No: 401.1 CUN Author: Cunnigham, Stuart Source: AT Place: Strawberry Hills, NSW Publisher: Currency House PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 55 p. ; 21 cm Series: Platform papers ; no. 9 Subject: ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT CONTROL Summary: Cultural economics has given reason for governments to subsidise the arts, and the idea of cultural industries has given governments reasons to regulate and further develop cultural policy. This essay looks at policies developed in other parts of the world that seek broader evidence of how creativity might be integrated in society. Notes: Also inc. responses to 'Body for hire', by Jennifer McLachlan and David Spurgeon. Includes bibliographic references. ISBN: 0975730150 (ISBN); 1449583X (ISSN) More info

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