The 370-page thesis in PDF form (I didn't endure a video) has several interesting charts, for example, major distributors' real income v. their employees real income 1950 - 2003, number of theatrical releases in the U.S. and theatrical attendance per capita 1935 - 2015, and average shot length in American cinema 1915-2009. The author quotes film editors who explains an industrial-commercial reason for the shrinking of shot length.
Unfortunately, most of the author's propositions have no compelling argument or evidence, only compatible but insufficient or debatable observations. The typical Nitzan-school attack on Marxist economics is based on a laughable caricature of the latter. And the attempt to pit Veblen against Marx is based on precisely those points made by Veblen that overlap Marxist economics. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
