Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID - Softcover

Fortmueller, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477324607 ISBN 13: 9781477324608

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2021

Synopsis

By March 2020, the spread of COVID-19 had reached pandemic proportions, forcing widespread shutdowns across industries, including Hollywood. Studios, networks and production companies, and the thousands of workers who make film and television possible, were forced to adjust their time-honored business and labor practices. In this book, Kate Fortmueller asks what happened when the coronavirus closed Hollywood.

Hollywood Shutdown examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected film and television production, influenced trends in distribution, reshaped theatrical exhibition, and altered labor practices. From January movie theater closures in China to the bumpy September release of Mulan on the Disney+ streaming platform, Fortmueller probes various choices made by studios, networks, unions and guilds, distributors, and exhibitors during the evolving crisis. In seeking to explain what happened in the first nine months of 2020, this book also considers how the pandemic will transform Hollywood practices in the twenty-first century.

About this title

About the Author

Kate Fortmueller is an associate professor of film and media history at Georgia State University. She is the author of Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477324607
• ISBN 13: 9781477324608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156