Epilogue: Learning from the Pandemic of 1918

Authors

Miranda Banks, Loyola Marymount UniversityFollow
Vicki Mayer
Noa Lavie

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2024

Abstract

In the wake of the worst years of the COVID pandemic, we reflect on film industries’ challenges during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in this epilogue. We turn our eyes to Hollywood as an example, as the European film industries were already so profoundly disrupted by World War I. At the time, Adolf Zukor and the Famous Players-Lasky managed the crisis by amassing theaters and building a chain production-distribution-exhibition system. It would become the economic model for vertical integration in Hollywood.

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Original Publication Citation

Banks, Miranda, Vicki Mayer, and Noa Lavie. 2024. “Epilogue: Learning from the Pandemic of 1918.” In Media Industries in Crisis: What COVID Unmasked. Routledge.

Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation

Banks, Miranda; Mayer, Vicki; and Lavie, Noa, "Epilogue: Learning from the Pandemic of 1918" (2024). Film, TV, and Media Studies Faculty Works. 6.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ftvs_fac/6