@article{1449644,
      recid = {1449644},
      author = {Sedgwick, John,},
      title = {Towards a comparative economic history of cinema,  1930-1970 /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {This book examines the economic circumstances in which  films were produced, distributed, exhibited, and consumed  during the spoken era of film production until 1970. The  periodisation covers the years between the onset of sound  and the demise of the phased distribution of films. Films  are generally appreciated for their aesthetic qualities.  But they are also commodities. This work of economic  history presents a new approach, considering consumption  behaviour as significant as supply-side decision-making.  Audiences tastes are considered central, with box-office an  indicator of what they liked. The POPSTAT Index of Film  Popularity is used as a proxy where box office knowledge is  missing. Comparative analysis is conducted through the tool  RelPOP. The book comprises original case studies covering  film consumption in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden,  and the United States during the 1930s; Australia and  occupied Belgium during the Second World War; and Italy,  the United States, Poland and Czechoslovakia during the  Post-war. An overriding theme is how the classical American  business model, which emerged during the 1910s linking  production to distribution and exhibition, adapted to local  circumstances, including the two countries behind the Iron  Curtain during the years of High Stalinism.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1449644},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05770-0},
}