Grand Design or Advanced Derivations Pricing and Risk Management with Hands On Programming Applications

Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939

Author: Tino T Balio

The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," saw the release of such memorable films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach. It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series History of the American Cinema, Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era.

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The six contributors to this volume examine aspects of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era. Topics include the production code and the Hays office, technological change and classical film style, production trends, and avant-garde film. B&w film stills. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
1	Introduction	1
2	Surviving the Great Depression	13
3	The Production Code and the Hays Office	37
4	Feeding the Maw of Exhibition	73
5	Technological Change and Classical Film Style	109
6	Selling Stars	143
7	Production Trends	179
	Prestige Pictures	179
	Musicals	210
	The Woman's Film	235
	Comedy	256
	Social Problem Films	280
	Horror Films	298
8	The B Film: Hollywood's Other Half	313
9	The Poetics and Politics of Nonfiction: Documentary Film	351
10	Avant-Garde Film	387
	App. Variety's Top-grossing Films	405
	App. Major Academy Awards	407
	App. Film Daily's Ten Best Films	411
	List of Abbreviations	413
	Notes	414
	Bibliography	441
	General Index	449
	Index of Films	473

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Advanced Derivations Pricing and Risk Management with Hands On Programming Applications

Author: Claudio Albanes

In this book the authors teach finance students about the most important and cutting-edge topics in financial derivatives pricing and risk management, striking a fine balance between theory and practice. A dozen carefully designed numerical projects are included on the accompanying CDROM that introduce students to actual implementation issues in pricing and risk management within the computational environment of a financial engineer.

The text is succinctly written, with clear and insightful descriptions of state-of-the-art financial models. The numerical projects contained on the CDROM provide a laboratory companion for the text that gives students an initial experience in actual quantitative implementations of pricing and risk management. The projects progress from simple to complex so as the student progresses, the exercises become more challenging and resemble realistic situations more closely.

*Includes easy-to-implement VB/VBA numerical software libraries
*Proceeds from simple to complex in approaching pricing and risk management problems
*Provides analytical methods to derive cutting-edge pricing formulas for equity derivatives