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Professor

responsibilities

Director Centre for International Business and Sustainability (CIBS)

brief biography

Professor John Sedgwick is Professor of Film Economics as well as Head of the Centre for International Business and Sustainability (CIBS). He joined the University in 1987 and has chaired the Norman Stang Research Seminars since 1989.

John has developed a research track in the economics and economic history of film and has published papers with his long term collaborator Michael Pokorny (University of Westminster) in the Economic History Review, Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and Journal of Cultural Economics, He has also published a monograph and edited (with Pokorny) an anthology of papers in the field. Other journals include Business History, Transnational Cinemas, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

John received a PhD in Economics from London Guildhall University in 1995 for his work on the market for films in Britain during the 1930s. He was a Leverhulme Research fellow in 2000, a Menzies Research Fellow in 2006 and a Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)/Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) Visiting Research Fellow in 2007. He is currently a visiting research fellow at Findustria Research Centre, Bocconi University, Milan.

key teaching areas

Undergraduate: Business Economics, Industrial Economics

Postgraduate: Research methods

research interests

The Economics and History of Film

recent publications

• 'Profitability trends in Hollywood, 1929 to 1999: somebody must know something' Economic History Review 63, (2010) pp. 56-84, with Mike Pokorny
• 'Consumers as risk takers: evidence from the film industry during the 1930s', Business History, (2010 - forthcoming)- co-authored with Mike Pokorny
• 'Hollywood's foreign earnings during the 1930s', Transnational Cinemas, (2010 - forthcoming)- co-authored with Mike Pokorny
  
• ‘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.
• 'Patterns in first-run and suburban filmgoing in Sydney in the mid-1930s' in Maltby, Richard, Biltereyst, Daniel and Meers, Philippe (Eds), The New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies. (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
• 'Fumbling Towards Some New Form of Art?': The Changing Composition of Film Programmes in Britain, 1908–1914", Annemone Ligensa and Klaus Kreimeier (eds): Film 1900: Technology, Perception, Culture, (New Barnet / Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009)co-authored with Ian Christie

See full bibliography.