Entertainment Industrialised - The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940 (Hardcover)

Entertainment Industrialised is the first study to compare the emergence and economic development of the film industry 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 U.S., the quality race resulted in today's industry, in which a handful of American companies dominate the global entertainment business.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Gerben Bakker
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	472
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-89854-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Cinema industry Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
LSN:	0-521-89854-4
Barcode:	9780521898546

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