Blockbuster Cinema: Hollywood’s Obsession with Low Risk York University presentation by James McMahon
ABSTRACT: Hollywood is obsessed with blockbusters – for 20 years the major studios have been making them, and it appears that blockbuster cinema will be with us for many years to come. This presentation will theoretically and empirically explain how blockbusters, and the associated business strategies that surround them, serve Hollywood’s financial goals. The key to blockbusters is that they allow major studios to reduce their risk. The revenues of designed-to-be blockbusters rarely fall below expectations, making the world of cinema increasingly predictable. Moreover, this predictability affects how the film business controls the social creativity of filmmakers and, indirectly, the behaviour of consumers. *** James McMahon is a PhD student at the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, York University ([email protected]) This presentation is the third in the Second Speaker Series on the Capitalist Mode of Power, organized by capitalaspower.com and sponsored by the York Department of Political Science and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. WHEN: Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 3:00-5:00 pm WHERE: Verney Room, 674 South Ross, Keele Campus of York University FULL TEXT:http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/461/ *** Recent additions and updates to the Bichler & Nitzan Archives: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/cgi/latest Free to repost and circulate with due attribution under the Creative Commons License (attribution-noncommercial-no derivative). To unsubscribe, reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject field. -- Jonathan Nitzan Political Science || Social and Political Thought York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3 Canada Voice: (416) 736-2100, ext. 88822 Fax: (416) 736-5686 Email: nitzan at yorku.ca The Bichler & Nitzan Archives:http://bnarchives.net Alternative site:http://yorku.academia.edu/JonathanNitzan Capital as Power:http://capitalaspower.com RECASP (journal):http://lha.uow.edu.au/hsi/research/recasp/articles/index.html RECASP Essay Prize:http://lha.uow.edu.au/hsi/research/recasp/essayprize/index.html _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
