Description
Book SynopsisA concise and timely analysis of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on film and television production, distribution, and exhibition in the first nine months of 2020.
Trade ReviewThe value of Fortmueller’s book is as a contemporary historical record of what’s happened to the entertainment industry thus far [during the COVID-19 pandemic], and as a source of informed speculation on what might happen next...Despite its compact size, the book contains an impressive amount of information and analysis, all of it accessibly written and clearly explained. * PopMatters *
Hollywood Shutdown is a slender but information packed analysis of the motion picture industry’s response to a crisis that recalled any number of Hollywood disaster movies. * Shepherd Express *
One of the first (if not the first) books about the impact of COVID-19 on film and television production. H
ollywood Shutdown covers how and why the production, distribution, and exhibition of entertainment has shifted so dramatically. Fortmueller explains that because of the pandemic’s ongoing nature, she 'did not have the kind of temporal and emotional distance from my subject that is usually part of the writing process.' But this perspective serves to make
Shutdown even more vital as an in-the-moment chronicle of how Hollywood responded to COVID. * The Film Stage *
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
Introduction. Hollywood Responds to a Pandemic
Chapter 1. Production
Chapter 2. Distribution
Chapter 3. Exhibition
Conclusion. Where Do We Go from Here?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
