Contemporary film and economics: Lights! Camera! Econ!

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The economics in film -- Economics as backstory -- Economics in contemporary film -- The art of visual storytelling -- A few caveats and qualifications -- 2 A passage to choice -- Who benefits? -- Deci...

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1. Verfasser: Staley, Sam 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge 2018
Schriftenreihe:Routledge economics and popular culture
Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The economics in film -- Economics as backstory -- Economics in contemporary film -- The art of visual storytelling -- A few caveats and qualifications -- 2 A passage to choice -- Who benefits? -- Decisions, decisions -- The maddening value of trade -- Concluding thoughts -- 3 The economics of greed, entrepreneurship, and innovation -- Greed is good . . . or not -- Putting the social in entrepreneurship -- A new type of entrepreneur in film? -- The Joy of entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurship and the future of narrative film -- 4 The labor market costs of crime, pride, and prejudice -- The radically upward sloping supply curve -- What's in your bank account? -- The dignity of work -- The social costs of discrimination -- Concluding thoughts -- 5 Financing the housing crisis and the Great Recession -- On the precipice of financial Armageddon -- Who killed the world economy? -- Whither the banks and corporate finance? -- Did Occupy Wall Street scuttle the economics in Hell or High Water? -- Concluding thoughts -- 6 The nature and causes of wealth in film -- Is capitalism an unknown ideal in film? -- The tropes of economic stagnation -- Can movies get beyond economic tropes? -- Rescuing movies from tropes -- Bringing movie narratives on growth back to earth -- 7 Government without romance -- Politics without romance -- The economics of factions and governing -- Rent seeking -- Beyond corruption and political cynicism -- Regime uncertainty and political succession -- Is government a blind spot for filmmakers? -- 8 Conclusion: The economics behind the story -- Subject index -- Movie index
Beschreibung:xiii, 97 Seiten
ISBN:9780815367031
9780815367055

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