Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture (UC Press, 2024)
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ALT Best Book Award: Andrew deWaard: Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture Award Citation: Andrew deWaard's Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture is an urgently needed exploration and diagnosis of the ways in which private equity, hedge funds, derivatives, and other financial entities and logics have become central to the economic and creative functioning of Hollywood. Using interviews with studio executives and investors, financial filings, trade publications, and historical analyses of investment documents, deWaard posits that, 'financialization is a key structural force—perhaps the key structural force—shaping cultural production and circulation today.'
ALT Best Book Award: Andrew deWaard: Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture Award Citation: Andrew deWaard's Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture is an urgently needed exploration and diagnosis of the ways in which private equity, hedge funds, derivatives, and other financial entities and logics have become central to the economic and creative functioning of Hollywood. Using interviews with studio executives and investors, financial filings, trade publications, and historical analyses of investment documents, deWaard posits that, 'financialization is a key structural force—perhaps the key structural force—shaping cultural production and circulation today.'
