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- Title
Financialized Hollywood: Institutional Investment, Venture Capital, and Private Equity in the Film and Television Industry.
- Authors
deWaard, Andrew
- Abstract
The financial sector has a hidden but dramatic effect on Hollywood: three institutional investors hold the largest investment stakes in nearly all major companies; corporate venture capital has emerged within every entertainment conglomerate; and private equity firms have enacted leveraged buyouts of companies in all sectors, including production, distribution, exhibition, talent agencies, audience measurement, trade press, and content catalogs. This article argues that "financialized Hollywood" is a dangerous development; financial engineering strategies are extracting capital and reducing operational capacity, further depriving Hollywood of the diversity and heterogeneity it might provide the public sphere.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FINANCIAL services industry; MOTION picture industry; WRITERS Guild of America; LITERARY agents; VENTURE capital; LEVERAGED buyouts
- Publication
JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, 2020, Vol 59, Issue 4, p54
- ISSN
2578-4900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2020.0041