How Hollywood Works

This is a book about the US motion picture industry its structure andpolicies its operations and practices. It looks at the processes that areinvolved in turni... » 

This is a book about the US motion picture industry its structure andpolicies its operations and practices. It looks at the processes that areinvolved in turning raw materials and labor into feature films. It describesthe process of film production distribution exhibition and retail a processthat involves different markets where materials labor and products are boughtand sold. In other words this is a book about how Hollywood works as anindustry.How Hollywood Works offers an uptodate survey of the policies and structure of the US filmindustry looks at the relationship between the film industry and other mediaindustries examines the role of the major studios and the other players includinglaw firms talent agents and trade unions and guilds provides access to hardtofind statistical information on the industryWhile many books describe the film production and marketing process theyusually do so from an industry perspective and few look at Hollywood criticallyfrom within a more general economic political and social context. By offeringjust such a critique Janet Waskos text provides a timely and essentialanalysis of how Hollywood works for all students of film and media. «