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UNINA9910796977903321 |
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Autore |
Connor J. D. |
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Hollywood math and aftermath : the economic image and the digital recession / / J. D. Connor |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018 |
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1-5013-1439-4 |
1-5013-1441-6 |
1-5013-1440-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Money in motion pictures |
Motion picture industry - Economic aspects - United States |
Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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