"Netflix is the definitive media company of the 21st century. It was among the first to parlay new Internet technologies into a successful business model, and in the process it changed how consumers access film and television. It is now one of the leading providers of digitally delivered media...

The Hollywood trilogy, the Disney duo / Eileen R. Meehan -- Movie theaters and money : integration and consolidation in film exhibition / Ben Birkinbine -- How Hollywood workers unite : labor convergence and the creation of SAG-AFTRA / Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco -- Mexican film...

Introduction: cultural brokerage in the American and French film and television industries / Violaine Roussel and Denise Bielby -- Agents, agenting, agencies. Twenty-four years of agenting / Harry J. Ufland -- Talent agencies and the market for screenwriters: from the origins of packaging to...

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...