Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Movie Wars Questioning the assumptions that govern our culture, this book focuses on one medium -- the movies. In particular, it examines how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, exposing industry secrets such as how Miramax often buys distribution rights to movies it then fails to distribute, presumably to make sure its competitors don't get them. The book shows, for the first time, how the corpo...
Full description- Publisher: A Cappella Books
- Published: 01 July 2002
- Format: Paperback 234 pages
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- Categories: Film Theory & Criticism | Dance & Other Performing Arts | Media Studies | Cinema Industry
- ISBN 13: 9781556524547 ISBN 10: 1556524544
- Sales rank: 721,734
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Full description for Movie Wars
Questioning the assumptions that govern our culture, this book focuses on one medium -- the movies. In particular, it examines how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, exposing industry secrets such as how Miramax often buys distribution rights to movies it then fails to distribute, presumably to make sure its competitors don't get them. The book shows, for the first time, how the corporate ownership of movie theatres defies antitrust laws and precedents stretching back over 50 years. While the average American can usually find a book or record that has not been endorsed by the mainstream media, when it comes to movies, consumers are powerless against what Rosenbaum calls 'the media-industrial complex'.
