The lucky few in Hollywood get long acting careers as stars in dozens of films, but do trends in casting repetition change over time? And why is there repetition? Excited that my empirical study of Hollywood casting has been accepted for Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

A pre-print copy will be made available soon. For now, you can read the 2022 working paper. capitalaspower.com/2022/01/2022-0…

Or you can read the blog post that used my initial research on Hollywood casting: notesoncinema.com/2021/06/30/whe…

New blog post on Hollywood strikes! #WGAStrong "How do we reach a point when studios fight against the labour they (theoretically) need to be creative?" notesoncinema.com/2023/05/26/the…

Why are Hollywood screenwriters on strike? James McMahon gives us the big picture. Studios tend to be recalcitrant when their profits decline relative to the wider corporate benchmark. So that's when unions are forced to strike to get their demands. notesoncinema.com/2023/05/26/the…

Round 2 of the capital as power reading group is live. Come join us and vote for the book you'd like to read here: capitalaspower.com/casp-forum/top…

A superb new paper from the ever-innovative James McMahon James McMahon. Hollywood's is all about differential risk reduction. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Has Hollywood casting become more repetitive? James McMahon crunches the numbers in this new paper. He argues that growing casting repetitiveness is a way for Hollywood to reduce risk. It seems to be working. capitalaspower.com/2023/05/mcmaho…

James McMahon (James McMahon ) continues his on-going analysis of the film business. In this post, he shows when and why Hollywood strikes tend to happen. Spoiler: strikes aren't random. capitalaspower.com/2023/06/the-po…

15/ By contrast, CasP shows how major entertainment conglomerates use blockbusters to kill the uncertainty of artistic creativity, and in so doing reduce their differential risk and boost their differential capitalization. James McMahon bnarchives.yorku.ca/761/

Blair Blair Fix @[email protected] is one of the most brilliant researchers I’ve ever known. He’s finishing up a Post-Doc and needs public support to continue his work. I support him already & I’d like you to join me: read A Blind Leap economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/06/18/a-b…, sign up at economicsfromthetopdown.com/membership/

On the different spectra of political-economic theories, by James McMahon James McMahon capitalaspower.com/2013/12/the-co…

DT Cochrane 11/ Take Hollywood. Over the past half-century, its net profits have merely met the average, yet its differential capitalization has risen continuously. And the reason, just like with Rhodes & Rothschild’s South Africa, is risk reduction. James McMahon bnarchives.yorku.ca/761/

DT Cochrane James McMahon 12/ Dominant film companies learned how to substitute blockbuster predictability for artistic creativity, & as their strategic sabotage intensified & films grew duller, their differential risk declined, & differential capitalization trended upward. bnarchives.yorku.ca/362/

Nice to be quoted in an article about the #SAGAFTRAstrike for Voice of America. Thank you to Rob Garver for reaching out for an interview. voanews.com/a/actors-strik…