BSc Hons Economics (Oxford Polytechnic, London University) Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Garnett College, London University) Certificate in Economics (Birkbeck College, London University) MA Social and Economic History (Birkbeck College, London University) PhD 'The Market for Films in Britain, 1932-1937' (1990-1995 London Guildhall University, now London Metropolitan University) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recent Journal Articles |
'The film business in the U.S. and Britain during the 1930s' Economic History Review, 58 (2005): 79-112. Co-authored with Mike Pokorny. 'The film business in the United States and Britain during the 1930s', Economic History Review, 58 (2005: 79-112). With Michael Pokorny. View paper on the Social Science Research Network web site. 'Product differentiation at the movies: Hollywood , 1946-65', Journal of Economic History, 62 (2002): 676-705. 'The nature of popular film as a commodity: the diffusion of film in Britain during the mid-1930s', Homo Oeconomicus, 17 (2001): 427-440. 'Stardom and the profitability of filmmaking: Warner Bros. in the 1930s', Journal of Cultural Economics, 25 (2001): 157-184. Co-authored with Mike Pokorny. 'The risk environment of film-making: Warners in the Inter-War period', Explorations in Economic History, 35 (1998): 196-220. Co-authored with Mike Pokorny. 'Film 'hits' and 'misses' in mid-1930s Britain ', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 18 (1998): 333-351.
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| Books | Single Authored Book
Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: a choice of pleasures , Exeter , Exeter University Press (2000). Edited Book An Economic History of Film , London , Routledge (2005). Co-edited with Mike Pokorny. I contribute new work in the form of chapters on 'The Characteristics of Film as a Commodity', 'Warner Bros. in the Inter-War Years: Strategic Responses to the Risk Environment of Film Making' both co-authored with Mike Pokorny and a reprint of my Journal of Economic History article (see below).
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| Chapters in Books | 'Cinema Going in the United States in the mid-1930s: A Study Based on the Variety Dataset', co-authored with Mark Glancy in Hollywood and the Social Experience of Movie-going, edited by Melvyn Stokes, Bobby Allen and Richard Maltby, Exeter, Exeter University Press and California University Press (2005).
'Pushing back Hollywood : the impact of protection on the British film industry during 1930s Britain ', in M. Kipping and N. Tiratsoo , Americanisation in 20th Century Europe : Business, Culture, Politics, Vol.2 , Centre de Recherche sur l'Histoire de l'Europe du Nord-Quest, Universit? Charles de Gaulle, Lille (2002). 'Cinema-going preferences in Britain in the 1930s', in J. Richards, ed., The unknown 1930s: an alternative history of the British cinema, 1929-39, I.B. Tauris, (1999).
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| Filmgoing in
Portsmouth in 1934 |
A POPSTAT Dataset of Filmgoing in Portsmouth in 1934 (Excel File) | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Regent Ledger |
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