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Title:Entertainment Industrialised: The emergence of the international film industry, 1890-1940
Author(s):BAKKER, GerbenDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Entertainment Industrialised is the first study to compare the emergence and economic development of the film industry in Britain, France and the United States between 1890 and 1940. Gerben Bakker investigates the ...
Title:The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940
Author(s):BAKKER, GerbenDate:2007Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:At the end of the nineteenth century, in the era of the second industrial revolution, falling working hours, rising disposable income, increasing urbanisation, rapidly expanding transport networks and strong population ...
Title:The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940
Author(s):BAKKER, GerbenDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:LSE Economic History Working PapersAbstract:This paper investigates the role of consumption in the emergence of the motion picture industry in Britain France and the US. A time-lag of at least twelve years between the invention of cinema and the film industry’s ...
Title:Selling French Films on Foreign Markets: The international strategy of a medium-sized company
Author(s):BAKKER, GerbenDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Foreign markets largely shaped the business strategy of Les Films Albatros, a medium-sized, internationally networked specialty producer of films in interwar France. Depending more on foreign revenues than did the Hollywood ...
Title:Entertainment Industrialised: The emergence of the international film industry, 1890-1940
Author(s):BAKKER, GerbenDate:2001Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Entertainment Industrialised is the first study to compare the emergence and economic development of the film industry in Britain, France and the United States between 1890 and 1940. Gerben Bakker investigates the ...
Title:Stars and Stories: How films became branded products
Author(s):BAKKER, GerbenDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Between 1890 and 1940, motion pictures changed from technological novelties into heavily branded consumer products. The high sunk costs and short “shelf-life” of movies led film producers to borrow branding techniques from ...
