Description
About the Author
Lee Grieveson teaches media history at University College London. He is the author of Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth Century America and coeditor of a number of books including Inventing Film Studies, Empire and Film and, most recently, Cinema's Military Industrial Complex.
Reviews
"Lee Grieveson's bold historical analysis of the relationship between media and capital is nothing if not timely. . . . [He] deepens the scholarship on cinema's social role beyond the dominant art and entertainment paradigms." * Reviews in History *
"A monumental achievement, a book that invites scholars to rethink what it means to research and write film history." * JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *
"Few recent books in film and media studies can match the ambition Lee Grieveson set himself with Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System, and even fewer have delivered in the way Grieveson does. Nothing less than a comprehensive reconceptualisation of the discipline is on the agenda . . . in which political economy replaces aesthetics at the centre of our concerns, and in which questions of corporate ownership, state policy and class hegemony form the core of research in the field. . . . [It's a] rare breed of academic text: one that leaves the reader vivified at the end, as Grieveson's final chapter whizzes from the techno-futurism of the 1939 World Fair, through the cinema's insertion into the military-industrial complex in the Cold War and onto the fully automated drone-logic of contemporary capitalist media." * Senses of Cinema *
"A beacon for future research, Grieveson's Cinema and the Wealth of Nations will undoubtedly become one of the most significant monographs in the field of media history and political economy, and provide an indispensable resource, not only in terms of its valuable content, but also its grand scope, ambitious synthesis, and urgent message." * Film-Philosophy *
Book Information
ISBN 9780520291690
Author Lee Grieveson
Format Paperback
Page Count 492
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 680g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm