The International Movie Industry

Edited by Gorham Kindem

August 2000

ISBN 0-8093-2298-6 | cloth | $59.95s

ISBN 0-8093-2299-4 | paper | $38.50s

432 pages | 2 tables, 4 figures | 6 x 9

Film Studies

Movies are both art and commerce, creative expressions of national/cultural interests and preoccupations and part of a global entertainment market. The past century has witnessed a transformation of the movies from popular novelties into highly valued cultural icons and commodities that have promoted national identity and specific political agendas, while also affecting international trade.

This comprehensive history of the international movie industry from its inception in 1895 to the present features nineteen original essays by international scholars who examine the film industries of nineteen countries and six continents. Each chapter in The International Movie Industry focuses on a specific national movie industry’s economic and related social, aesthetic, technological, and political/ideological development within an international context during the last century. The result is a global history of the movie industry over the last one hundred years.

Gorham Kindem is a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Live Television Generation of Hollywood Film Directors, coauthor of Introduction to Media Production: From Analog to Digital, and editor of The American Movie Industry. He has directed several public television documentaries.

Contents & Contributors

Marcus Breen, Australia

Cristina Degli-Espositi Reinert, Italy

David Desser, Japan

Manthia Diawara, Senegal

Leif Furhammar, Sweden

Susan Hayward, France

Joanne Hershfield, Mexico

Andrew Higson, Great Britain

Beverly James, Hungary

Randal Johnson, Brazil

Gorham Kindem, United States

John A. Lent, China

Peter Morris, Canada

Hamid Naficy, Iran

Owen Shapiro, Israel

Arnold Shepperson, South Africa;

Dmitry V. Shlapentokh, Soviet Union

Marc Silberman, Germany

Radha Subramanyam, India

Kenyan G. Tomaselli, South Africa

Faye Zhengxing, China

Paper

Cloth