A Concise Handbook of Movie Industry Economics

List of Contributors vii Introduction 1(4) 1 Critiquing Hollywood: The Political Economy of Motion Pictures 5(27) Janet Wasko 2 Film Production in the Digital Age - What Do We Know about the Past and the Future? 32(27) S. Abraham Ravid 3 Movie Industry Accounting 59(21) Harold L. Vogel 4 Theatrical Release and the Launching of Motion Pictures 80(58) Charles C. Moul and Steven M. Shugan 5 The Film Exhibition Business: Critical Issues, Practice, and Research 138(25) Jehoshua Eliashberg 6 Profits out of the Picture: Research Issues and Revenue Sources Beyond the North American Box Office 163(36) Charles B. Weinberg Appendix 199(6) Index 205