“The Entire Motion Picture Industry Presents”: The World Is Ours (1938)

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Catherine Jurca
Keyword(s):  
Motion Picture ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
The World

The City as Studio; The World as Back Lot: The Impact of Vertical Disintegration on the Location of the Motion Picture Industry

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Christopherson ◽  
M Storper
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Vertical Disintegration ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Motion picture production is currently carried out by small firms under contract to an independent producer rather than in large integrated firms, the major studios. In this paper the emergence of this vertically disintegrated industry is traced and its impact on the location of the motion picture industry is analyzed. Vertical disintegration has led to a reagglomeration of motion picture employment and establishments in Los Angeles, despite the dispersal of film shooting throughout the world. The processes that are shaping the present-day organization of motion pictures can be observed across a range of industries. An examination of these processes in motion pictures suggests that their association with reagglomeration in urban centers could have an important impact on patterns of urbanization.

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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