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The Hollywood economist : the hidden financial reality behind the movies / Edward Jay Epstein.
LIBRA PN1993.5.U65 E675 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Edward Jay, 1935-2024.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--Finance.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion picture industry--United States--Finance.
- Motion picture industry--Economic aspects.
- Finance.
- United States.
- Motion picture industry--Economic aspects--California--Los Angeles.
- Motion picture industry--Economic aspects--United States.
- Motion picture industry--Finance.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Hidden financial reality behind the movies
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, [2010]
- Summary:
- Veteran investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein goes undercover to explore Hollywood's "invisible money machine," probing the dazzlingly complicated finances behind the hits and the flops, while he answers the surprisingly puzzling question: How do the studios make their money?--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Why journalists don't understand Hollywood
- The popcorn economy
- Star culture
- Hollywood's invisible money machine
- Hollywood politics
- The new studio system
- Epilogue: The end of the beginning
- or the end?
- Notes:
- "Parts of this book appeared in earlier form in The New Yorker, Slate, The Wall Street journal, and the Financial times."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781933633848
- 1933633840
- OCLC:
- 326536141
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