Hollywood Math and Aftermath

The Economic Image and the Digital Recession

Professor J.D. Connor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-1438-4 (ISBN)

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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.

J.D. Connor is Associate Professor in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, USA. His research focuses on the interplay of art and industry in the contemporary Hollywood system, the history of tape recording, and Kennedy-era media shifts. Connor is the author of the forthcoming The Studios after the Studios (2015) and on the Steering Committee of Post45 (post45.org).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Equation of Pictures
1. The Economic Image; Hollywood Dataculture and the Moneyball of Moneyball

I. Precession: Titanic: It’s All on the Screen
2. Follow the Money: The Warner ’70s
3. High Concept the Chicago way: Dan Rostenkowski, Ferris Bueller, Eliot Ness
4. Like Some Dummy Corporation You Just Move Around the Board: Tax Credits and Time Travel

II. Recession: Two Trailers From the Opening of the Obama Era
5. The Biggest Independent Pictures Ever Made
6. Numbers, Stations: Lost and the Digital Turn in U.S. Television
7. The Piggies and the Market
8. The United States of America v. The Wolf of Wall Street

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	96 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-5013-1438-6 / 1501314386
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-1438-4 / 9781501314384
Zustand	Neuware