Entertainment Industry Economics

by Vogel, Harold L.

• ISBN13: 9780521302128
• ISBN10: 0521302129
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1986-02-28
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

From the perspective of an investment analyst, portfolio manager, and economist, Harold Vogel presents the first comprehensive guide to the business economics of the entertainment industries. In a thorough, systematic manner, the author examines the financing, production, distribution, and marketing of a wide range of entertainments that include film, music, broadcasting, cable, hotel and casino gaming, the performing arts, and amusement parks. The book is written in a style that is accessible and interesting to the general reader as well as the specialist. Entertainment Industry Economics will prove to be an invaluable reference for executives, analysts, investors, and legal advisors, and a useful guide for students of arts administration, hotel management and other entertainment-related professions. It includes a glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading.

Author Biography

Harold L. Vogel is the author of Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2001), a companion volume to this study of the entertainment industry. He was ranked as top entertainment industry analyst for a record ten years by Institutional Investor magazine and served for seventeen years as senior entertainment industry analyst at Merrill Lynch and Co. A chartered financial analyst and member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts, Mr. Vogel formerly served on the New York State Governor's Motion Picture and Television Advisory Board. He is a frequent writer and speaker on investment topics related to leisure, entertainment, and travel, serves as adjunct professor of media economics at Columbia University's Uris Graduate School of Business, and is author of the novel Short Three Thousand (2000). Mr. Vogel currently heads an independent investment fund in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Economic perspectives

Basic elements

Media-dependent Entertainment

Movie macroeconomics

Making and marketing movies

Financial accounting in movies and television

Music

Broadcasting

Cable

Publishing

Toys and games

Live Entertainment

Gaming and wagering

Sports

Performing arts and culture

Amusement/theme parks

Roundup

Performance and policy

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