Subjects:

Media and Entertainment Law

Contents:

Part I. Introduction:
1. Economic perspectives

2. Basic elements

Part II. Media-dependent Entertainment:
3. Movie macroeconomics

4. Making and marketing movies

5. Financial accounting in movies and television

6. Music

7. Broadcasting

8. Cable

9. Publishing

10. Toys and games

Part III. Live Entertainment:
11. Gaming and wagering

12. Sports

13. Performing arts and culture

14. Amusement/theme parks

Part IV. Roundup:
15. Performance and policy.

In this newly revised book, Harold L. Vogel examines the business economics of the major entertainment enterprises: movies, music, television programming, broadcasting, cable, casino gambling and wagering, publishing, performing arts, sports, theme parks, and toys and games.

The seventh edition has been further revised and broadened and differs from its predecessors by restructuring and repositioning the previous Internet chapter, including new material on the economics of networks and advertising, adding a new section on policy implications, and further expanding the section on recent theoretical work pertaining to box-office behaviour.

The result is a comprehensive up-to-date reference guide on the economics, financing, production, and marketing of entertainment in the United States and overseas. Investors, business executives, accountants, lawyers, arts administrators, and general readers will find that the book offers an invaluable guide to how entertainment industries operate.

• New edition of leading text in entertainment industry economics and finance
• New features: economics of networks, advertising, public policy considerations, box-office-behaviour
• Author is interviewed constantly in mainstream media about film, new media and technology, and the like