| Description |
1 online resource (123 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, pandemic, film production, Hollywood, film distribution, television production, film industry |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-113) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
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Motion picture industry
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction
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California -- Los Angeles
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781477324615 |
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1477324615 |
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