Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• RAMYAR D. ROSSOUKH
• STEVEN C. CATON

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity, 2021, p.1

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As world economies in the last half century have moved away from manufacturing to communication and information technologies, film industries have concomitantly become more important and more prevalent than at any time in cinema history. “Globally, more than 3,000 feature films reached movie theaters in 2006, bringing in $23.8 billion in box-office revenues. And total global annual revenues across all distribution channels such as video and DVD, cable, television, and mobile sources were forecasted to be at $450 billion by the end of 2007, according to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The largest distributors of feature films in