The Nature of Popular Film as a Commodity: The Diffusion of Film in Britain during the mid-1930s

John Sedgwick
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John Sedgwick: Business School, University of North London, London

Homo Oeconomicus, 2001, vol. 17, 427-440

Abstract: Film is a most interesting commodity-type, combining attributes of public and private goods. In developing an ontology of film as a commodity the paper maintains that the characteristics which distinguish film from other commodity-types can be used to underpin the historical development of the 'system of provision' built about film in capitalist economies from its inception in the late 19th Century. This principle is used to examine the British market for film during the 1930s, a praxis that is compared with the current system of blanket distribution/exhibition.

Date: 2001
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