Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession

Money 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, tax credits, stock prices, inheritances. Or money can become a number, and numbers can be anything: pixels, batting averages, votes, likes. Touched off by an engagement with the work of Gilles Deleuze, J.D. Connor's Hollywood math and aftermath demonstrates the centrality of the economic image to Hollywood narrative. This conceptual history of the industry stretches from the dawn of the neoclassical era through the Great Recession and beyond--from The big short and The wolf of Wall Street to Equity and Blackhat, from Moneyball to 12 years a slave, Titanic to Lost, Déjà vu to Upstream color, The Avengers to The village. Hollywood math and aftermath provides a bravura portrait of the industry and its numerical underpinnings.--Back cover.

• | Author: J.D. Connor
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: February 20, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501362240
• | ISBN-13: 9781501362248