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Entertainment industrialised: the emergence of the international film industry, 1890-1940

This monograph adopts a novel approach to the emergence of the film industry, which is treated as a leading sector in the commercialisation and industrialisation of live entertainment. The research involved several methods, spanning general economic history, household budget analysis, industrial economics, business history case studies, and growth accounting. This comparative book is based on ten years of painstaking research on primary sources in Britain, France and the United States and secondary sources in five languages. The breadth of knowledge covered is illustrated by subsequent invitations to contribute handbook chapters in four different disciplines: economics, management science, film studies and economic history.