Hollywood Goes Digital: How Technology is Changing the Movie Industry
Jeffrey Hart
A number of digital technologies have reshaped the movie industry: e.g., DVDs, digital cameras, digital post-production, and online streaming services via the Internet. The COVID pandemic resulted in a major shift away from going to theaters toward viewing content at home. Digital libraries of films have become a major source of revenues for what used to be called movie studios. What are the implications of these changes for the future of the industry?
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Speaker
Jeffrey A. Hart is an emeritus professor of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His main area of specialization is international political economy. Most of his research has been on the politics of international economic competitiveness in the advanced industrial nations.
Between 1996 and 2001, he collaborated with Stefanie Lenway and Tom Murtha on the world flat panel display industry, supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2001, he completed a project on globalization in collaboration with Aseem Prakash that resulted in the publication of three edited volumes. In 2004, he published a book on the politics of high definition television (HDTV). He co-authored three editions of a textbook with Joan Edelman Spero (The Politics of International Economic Relations).
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