In this article, the structure of Hollywood film distribution will be analyzed through the lens of risk. In both its … technical and conceptual senses, risk is relevant to the study of Hollywood’s dominant firms. In the interest of lowering risk … cinema, which includes the creativity of filmmakers and the habits of moviegoers. This presentation of risk will explain why …

This paper investigates the historical development of risk in the Hollywood film business. Using opening theatres as a …

In this paper, the structure of Hollywood film distribution will be analyzed through the lens of risk. In both its … technical and conceptual senses, risk is relevant to the study of Hollywood’s dominant firms. In the interest of lowering risk … filmed entertainment.” The second part will focus on risk, which is an important component of the logic of capitalization …

This paper investigates the historical development of risk in the Hollywood film business. Using opening theatres as a …

and to what extent major filmed entertainment attempts to accumulate capital by lowering its risk. The process of lowering … risk—and the central role of capitalist power in this process—has characterized Hollywood’s orientation toward the social …-historical character of cinema and mass culture. This push to lower risk has been most apparent since the 1980s. In recent decades, major …

entertainment lowered its risk relative to the period before, 1960–79. This historical process of risk reduction is the effect of …

business interests wanting to reduce risk. The ambiguity of risk in this story – is it financial risk or is it aesthetic risk …? – is a helpful shortcut to understanding what reducing risk means for those who have control over the industrial art of … filmmaking. When the Hollywood film business is estimating its future earnings, risk perceptions account for the possibility that …

This paper builds an empirical and theoretical model to analyze how the financial goal of risk reduction changed the … business and culture of cinema. If the evolution of Hollywood's star system is shaped by broader social factors, risk reduction … was a factor in this period of risk reduction. Film casting assists risk reduction when a star system is built on …

clashed with the aesthetic potentials of cinema and ultimately stymied creativity in the pursuit of limiting risk. This sharp …