Hollywood math and aftermath : the economic image and the digital recession / J. D. Connor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connor, J. D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money in motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--Economic aspects--United States.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

Money is Hollywood's great theme-but money laundered into something else, something more. Money can be given a particular occasion and career, as box office receipts, casino winnings, tax credits, stock prices, lotteries, inheritances. Or money can become number, and numbers can be anything: pixels, batting averages, votes, likes. Through explorations of all these and more, J.D. Connor's Hollywood Math and Aftermath provides a stimulating and original take on "the equation of pictures," the relationship between Hollywood and economics since the 1970s. Touched off by an engagement with the work of Gilles Deleuze, Connor demonstrates the centrality of the economic image to Hollywood narrative. More than just a thematic study, this is a conceptual history of the industry that stretches from the dawn of the neoclassical era through the Great Recession and beyond. Along the way, Connor explores new concepts for cinema studies: precession and recession, pervasion and staking, ostension and deritualization. Enlivened by a wealth of case studies-from The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street to Equity and Blackhat, from Moneyball to 12 Years a Slave, Titanic to Lost, The Exorcist to WALLE, Déjà Vu to Upstream Color, Contagion to The Untouchables, Ferris Bueller to Pacific Rim, The Avengers to The Village-Hollywood Math and Aftermath is a bravura portrait of the industry coming to terms with its own numerical underpinnings

Contents:

Introduction: the equation of pictures

The economic image: Hollywood dataculture and the moneyball of Moneyball

Precession: Titanic: it's all on the screen

Follow the money: the Warner '70s

High concept the Chicago way: Dan Rostenkowski, Ferris Bueller, Eliot Ness

Like some dummy corporation you just move around the board: tax credits and time travel

Recession: two trailers from the opening of the Obama era

The biggest independent pictures ever made

Numbers, stations: Lost and the digital turn in U.S. television

The piggies and the market

The United States of America v. The wolf of Wall Street

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501314391

1501314394

9781501314414

1501314416

9781501314407

1501314408

OCLC:

1019844624