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Prof John Sedgwick Bibliography
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
Selected journal publications
- ‘Competitive Balance in the Top Level of English Football, 1948–2008: An Absent Principle and a Forgotten Ideal’, International Journal of the History of Sport, 26, (2009) pp.1668–1680, co-authored with John Curran, and Ian Jennings.
- ‘Cinemagoing in Portsmouth during the 1930s’, Cinema Journal, 46 (2006), pp.52-84
- ‘The film business in the U.S. and Britain during the 1930s’ Economic History Review, 58 (2005), pp. 79-112 - co-authored with Michael Pokorny
- An Economic History of Film, (London, Routledge, 2005) - co-edited with Mike Pokorny
- ‘Product differentiation at the movies: Hollywood, 1946-65’, Journal of Economic History, 62 (2002): 676-705.
- Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: a choice of pleasures, Exeter, Exeter University Press (2000).
- ‘The risk environment of film-making: Warners in the Inter-War period’, Explorations in Economic History, 35 (1998): 196-220 - co-authored with Michael Pokorny
Selected chapters in books
- ‘Cinema Going in the United States in the mid-1930s: A Study Based on the Variety Dataset’, in Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema', edited by Melvyn Stokes, Bobby Allen and Richard Maltby, (Exeter, Exeter University Press, 2007) - co-authored with Mark Glancy
- ‘A Shacklean Approach to the Demand for Movies’ in Bianchi, M. ed. The Evolution of Consumption: Theories and Practice’, (Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2007)
- ‘Economics of British TV’, in Gomery, D., and Hockley, L. eds., Television Industries, (London, BFI, 2006)
- ‘The impact of changes in filmgoing behaviour on the structure and practices of Hollywood between 1946 and 1965’, in Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies, edited by Jacqueline Furby and Karen Randell, (London, Wallflower Press, 2006)
- ‘Warner Bros. in the Inter-War Years: Strategic Responses to the Risk Environment of Film Making’, in Sedgwick, J. and Pokorny, M., eds. An Economic History of Film, (London, Routledge, 2005)
- ‘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, (1998)
