{"product_id":"9781501362248","title":"Hollywood Math and Aftermath : The Economic Image and the Digital Recession","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHollywood Math and Aftermath\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): J.D. Connor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoney is Hollywood's great theme-but money laundered into something else, something more. Money can be given a particular occasion and career, as box office receipts, casino winnings, tax credits, stock prices, lotteries, inheritances. Or money can become number, and numbers can be anything: pixels, batting averages, votes, likes. Through explorations of all these and more, J.D. Connor's Hollywood Math and Aftermath provides a stimulating and original take on “the equation of pictures,” the relationship between Hollywood and economics since the 1970s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTouched off by an engagement with the work of Gilles Deleuze, Connor demonstrates the centrality of the economic image to Hollywood narrative. More than just a thematic study, this is a conceptual history of the industry that stretches from the dawn of the neoclassical era through the Great Recession and beyond. Along the way, Connor explores new concepts for cinema studies: precession and recession, pervasion and staking, ostension and deritualization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnlivened by a wealth of case studies-from \u003ci\u003eThe Big Short\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wolf of Wall Street\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eEquity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlackhat\u003c\/i\u003e, from \u003ci\u003eMoneyball\u003c\/i\u003e to\u003ci\u003e 12 Years a Slave\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eLost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eWALLE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDéjà Vu \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eUpstream Color, Contagion\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Untouchables\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFerris Bueller \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003ePacific Rim\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Avengers\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Village\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eHollywood Math and Aftermath\u003c\/i\u003e is a bravura portrait of the industry coming to terms with its own numerical underpinnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the more original and illuminating explorations of commercial film and television production … Connor is as funny as he is smart, and he knows that taking the business of movies seriously will involve some ludicrous scenarios. Reading \u003ci\u003eAftermath \u003c\/i\u003eoften provides the insider thrill of pulling the curtain back to get a glimpse of how the sausage gets made.” —\u003ci\u003eJohns Hopkins Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a rare book that provides an entirely new way of thinking about Hollywood and the 'equation of pictures.'  Eloquent and methodologically aware, JD Connor provides deft analysis of the internalized relation of film to money, excavating the economic image of movies and TV shows with killing insight. For anyone seeking yield in the study of media industries and the stories they tell, this book is worth serious investment.” —\u003ci\u003ePaul Grainge, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Nottingham, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eHollywood Math and Aftermath\u003c\/i\u003e, Connor establishes himself as the premier quantum economist of contemporary Hollywood.  Bringing film and TV studios' financial logic into dialogue with Deleuzian theory and his own imaginative capital through a series of dexterous case studies spanning the past 50 years, Connor gives new meaning to creative accounting, yielding a profitable, balanced account of industry practices, corporate self-inscription and the politics of entertainment finance.” —\u003ci\u003eMark Gallagher, author of Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood (2013), University of Nottingham, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eHollywood Math and Aftermath\u003c\/i\u003e, J.D. Connor provides an original, provocative perspective on Conglomerate Hollywood's evolving practices and products. At once historical, philosophical, and industrial in scope, Connor creatively accounts for Hollywood's financial activities in a compelling set of case studies.” —\u003ci\u003eAlisa Perren, Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Deciding where the numbers end and art begins is a mug's game that writers have been trying to play with Hollywood almost since the birth of cinema itself. J. D. Connor's terrifically provocative new book should end this game for once and all.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501362248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40717441859790,"sku":"9781501362248","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_a7d621a2-f2d6-43b9-9e57-b9af820a968a.jpg?v=1641012212","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501362248","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}