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Wall Street and Vine: Hollywood's View of Business
Author(s) -
Ribstein Larry E.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.2544
Subject(s) - resentment , hollywood , politics , balance (ability) , power (physics) , vine , profit (economics) , advertising , economics , business , political science , law , art , art history , neoclassical economics , psychology , botany , biology , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
American films have long presented a negative view of business. This article is the first comprehensive and in‐depth analysis of filmmakers' attitude toward business. It shows that it is not business that filmmakers dislike but rather the control of firms by profit‐maximizing capitalists. The article argues that this dislike stems from filmmakers' resentment of capitalists' constraints on their artistic vision. Filmmakers' portrayal of business is significant because films have persuasive power that tips the political balance toward business regulation. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.