{"product_id":"cinema-and-the-wealth-of-lee-grieveson-9780520291690","title":"Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System","description":"\u003ci\u003eCinema and the Wealth of Nations \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how media, principally in the form of cinema, was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson shows how media was used to encode liberal political and economic power during the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic nation and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. \u003ci\u003eCinema and the Wealth of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been--and continues to be--brutally violent, unequal, and destructive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Grieveson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520291697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520291690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Lee Grieveson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946702176511,"sku":"9780520291690","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_19c40435-7cba-4d9d-8a50-04caa5e094ba.jpg?v=1681514645","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cinema-and-the-wealth-of-lee-grieveson-9780520291690","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}