Distribution revolution : conversations about the digital future of film and television / edited by Michael Curtin, Jennifer Holt, and Kevin Sanson ; foreword by Kurt Sutter.
Contributor(s): Curtin, Michael [editor.]
| Holt, Jennifer [editor.] | Sanson, Kevin [editor.]Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014Description: 256 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43528ISBN: 9780520283251 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Motion pictures -- Marketing | Motion pictures -- Distribution | Television programs -- Marketing | Television broadcasting | Digital media -- Influence | Chief executive officers -- United States -- Interviews | Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Interviews | Television producers and directors -- United States -- Interviews | Media StudiesDDC classification: 303.4833 DIS LOC classification: PN1995.9.M29 | D58 2014Summary: 'Distribution Revolution' is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems are transforming the entertainment business. These interviews provide lively insider accounts from studio executives, distribution professionals, and creative talent of the tumultuous transformation of film and TV in the digital era.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Distribution Revolution is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems are transforming the entertainment business. These interviews provide lively insider accounts from studio executives, distribution professionals, and creative talent of the tumultuous transformation of film and TV in the digital era. The first section features interviews with top executives at major Hollywood studios, providing a window into the big-picture concerns of media conglomerates with respect to changing business models, revenue streams, and audience behaviors. The second focuses on innovative enterprises that are providing path-breaking models for new modes of content creation, curation, and distribution--creatively meshing the strategies and practices of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. And the final section offers insights from creative talent whose professional practices, compensation, and everyday working conditions have been transformed over the past ten years. Taken together, these interviews demonstrate that virtually every aspect of the film and television businesses is being affected by the digital distribution revolution, a revolution that has likely just begun.
Interviewees include:
* Gary Newman, Chairman, 20th Century Fox Television
* Kelly Summers, Former Vice President, Global Business Development and New Media Strategy, Walt Disney Studios
* Thomas Gewecke, Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Warner Bros. Entertainment
* Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, Netflix
* Felicia D. Henderson, Writer-Producer, Soul Food , Gossip Girl
* Dick Wolf, Executive Producer and Creator, Law & Order
'Distribution Revolution' is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems are transforming the entertainment business. These interviews provide lively insider accounts from studio executives, distribution professionals, and creative talent of the tumultuous transformation of film and TV in the digital era.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. vii)
- Acknowledgments (p. ix)
- Introduction: Making of a Revolution (p. 1)
- Studios: Editors' Introduction (p. 21)
- Chairman, 20th Century Fox Television (p. 25)
- Senior Vice President, Global Digital Strategy and Operations, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (p. 37)
- Former Vice President, Global Business Development and New Media Strategy, The Walt Disney Company (p. 47)
- Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Warner Bros. Entertainment (p. 59)
- Chief Digital Strategy Officer, Sony Pictures Entertainment (p. 74)
- Upstarts: Editors' Introduction (p. 87)
- Founding Partner, BermanBraun (p. 91)
- President, Alloy Digital, and Chief Executive Officer, Generate (p. 101)
- Founder, Scolnik Enterprises (p. 111)
- General Manager, Evil Angel Productions (p. 121)
- Chief Content Officer, Nettlix (p. 132)
- Vice President, Communication, Voddler (p. 146)
- Creatives: Editors' Introduction (p. 159)
- Screenwriter-Director (p. 164)
- Director-Producer (p. 175)
- Writer-Producer (p. 189)
- Partner, Liner Law (p. 200)
- Writer-Producer and Former President, Writers Guild of America, West (p. 209)
- Executive Producer and Creator, Law & Order (p. 221)
- Appendix: Interview Schedule (p. 235)
- Glossary (p. 237)
- About the Editors (p. 243)
- Index (p. 245)
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