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Hollywood shutdown : production, distribution, and exhibition in the time of COVID / Kate Fortmueller

Author
Fortmueller, Kate
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (123 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
In English.
Contents
Introduction. Hollywood Responds to a Pandemic -- Chapter One. Production -- Chapter Two. Distribution -- Chapter Three. Exhibition -- Conclusion. Where Do We Go from Here?.
Summary
By March 2020, the spread of COVID-19 had reached pandemic proportions, forcing widespread shutdowns across industries, including Hollywood. Studios, networks and production companies, and the thousands of workers who make film and television possible, were forced to adjust their time-honored business and labor practices. In this book, Kate Fortmueller asks what happened when the coronavirus closed Hollywood. Hollywood Shutdown examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected film and television production, influenced trends in distribution, reshaped theatrical exhibition, and altered labor practices. From January movie theater closures in China to the bumpy September release of Mulan on the Disney+ streaming platform, Fortmueller probes various choices made by studios, networks, unions and guilds, distributors, and exhibitors during the evolving crisis. In seeking to explain what happened in the first nine months of 2020, this book also considers how the pandemic will transform Hollywood practices in the twenty-first century.
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ISBN
9781477324615
1477324615
1477324607
9781477324608
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-113) and index.
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