Prof John Sedgwick

LONDON METROPOLITAN BUSINESS SCHOOL

Prof John Sedgwick

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Professor

responsibilities

Professor of Film Economics
Director Centre for International Business and Sustainability (CIBS)

brief biography

John Sedgwick is Professor of Film Economics as well as the Head of the Centre for International Business and Sustainability at London Metropolitan University. He was a Leverhulme Research fellow in 2000, a Menzies Research Fellow in 2006 and a RMIT/AFTRS Visiting Research Fellow in 2007, and is currently researching separate projects on patterns of film consumption and distribution in Sydney and Philadelphia, both set in the mid-1930s.

key teaching areas

Research Methods
Industrial Economics

research interests

John researches into the economic history of film and has published in the Economic History Review, Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and Journal of Cultural Economics, as well as having contributed numerous book chapters, He has also published a monograph and edited an anthology of papers.

recent publications

'Profitability trends in Hollywood, 1929 to 1999: somebody must know something' Economic History Review 63, (2010) pp. 56-84, with Mike Pokorny
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Sedgwick, J. and Pokorny, M. (2010) ‘Consumers as risk takers: evidence from the film industry during the 1930s’, Business History, 52: 74-99
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Sedgwick, J. and Pokorny, M. (2010) ‘Hollywood’s foreign earnings during the 1930s’, Transnational Cinemas, 1, pp. 81-95
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‘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

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