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Entertainment industrialised : the emergence of the international film industry, 1890-1940
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Florence : European University Institute, 2001
EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
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BAKKER, Gerben, Entertainment industrialised : the emergence of the international film industry, 1890-1940, Florence : European University Institute, 2001, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/5711
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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 commercialisation and industrialisation of live entertainment in the nineteenth century and analyses the subsequent arrival of motion pictures, revealing that their emergence triggered a process of incessant creative destruction, development and productivity growth that continues in the entertainment industry today. He argues that cinema industrialised live entertainment by automating it, standardising it and making it tradeable, a process that was largely demand-led, and that a quality race between firms changed the structure of the international entertainment market. While a hundred years ago, European enterprises were supplying half of all films shown in the U.S., the quality race resulted in today's industry, in which a handful of American companies dominate the global entertainment business.
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Defence date: 30 October 2001
Examining Board: Prof. Paul Johnson, London School of Economics and Political Science ; Prof. Massimo Motta, European University Institute ; Prof. Jaime Reis, European University Institute (supervisor) ; Prof. Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
Examining Board: Prof. Paul Johnson, London School of Economics and Political Science ; Prof. Massimo Motta, European University Institute ; Prof. Jaime Reis, European University Institute (supervisor) ; Prof. Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017