TY - JOUR
T1 - "A maze of intricate relationships"
T2 - Mae D. Huettig and early forays into film industry studies
AU - Phillips, W. D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 Trustees of Indiana University.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Mae Huettig's Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry: A Study of Industrial Organization, first published in 1944, presents an analysis of Hollywood's mechanisms of oligopolistic control similar to the one developed by the US government during the Paramount case. Though economists from several fields had previously issued comparable research, hers was the first book to attempt to offer a more general readership such a foray into what we now call film industry studies. This essay revisits Huettig's book and provides a close analysis of the political, economic, academic, and personal contexts within which it was researched, written, and published.
AB - Mae Huettig's Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry: A Study of Industrial Organization, first published in 1944, presents an analysis of Hollywood's mechanisms of oligopolistic control similar to the one developed by the US government during the Paramount case. Though economists from several fields had previously issued comparable research, hers was the first book to attempt to offer a more general readership such a foray into what we now call film industry studies. This essay revisits Huettig's book and provides a close analysis of the political, economic, academic, and personal contexts within which it was researched, written, and published.
KW - Classical Hollywood cinema
KW - Film industry
KW - Mae Huettig
KW - Media economics
KW - Paramount case
KW - Studio system
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929080202&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2979/filmhistory.27.1.135
DO - 10.2979/filmhistory.27.1.135
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84929080202
VL - 27
SP - 135
EP - 163
JO - Film History: An International Journal
JF - Film History: An International Journal
SN - 0892-2160
IS - 1
ER -