scholarly journals “If you scale back now, you probably lose everything”: State Tax Incentives and the Motion Picture Industry

10.25101/13.9 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Preston
Keyword(s):  
Motion Picture ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
State Tax

Fade to Black? Exploring Policy Enactment and Termination Through the Rise and Fall of State Tax Incentives for the Motion Picture Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Thom ◽  
Brian An
Keyword(s):  
Motion Picture ◽  
State Level ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Economic Diversification ◽  
Policy Termination ◽  
Incentive Programs ◽  
State Tax ◽  
National Trends ◽  
Shed Light

Policy termination has received less scholarly attention than policy diffusion, and empirical state-level studies that examine the rise and fall of the same policy are mostly absent from the literature. This study assesses the factors that led more than 45 states to enact and some to later repeal Motion Picture Incentive programs, a collection of tax incentives aimed at facilitating job creation and economic diversification. We find program enactments were driven by rising unemployment and national but not bordering state imitation. Falling unemployment and national trends drove subsequent terminations, but in many states, their impact was overwhelmed by the influence of incentive spending, which greatly reduced termination likelihood. These results not only shed light on policy enactments and terminations in general, but also inform scholarship on state tax incentives and the role of competitive factors in their creation and repeal—or lack thereof.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Cohan
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Silent Era

The introduction provides the theoretical argument of the book. It explains why the backstudio picture is not a cycle but a genre in its own right, and how the genre depicts Hollywood as a geographic place in Los Angeles, as an industry, and as a symbol. It goes on to show how the backstudio picture has historically served to brand the motion picture industry as “Hollywood,” working in much the same way as consumer brands do today. Additionally, the introduction provides a historical overview of the genre, focusing on its four major cycles of production, from the silent era to the present day. Finally, it briefly describes the content of the seven chapters.

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