This Entertainment Business Subject Guide will help you connect to many resources involving with and relating to Entertainment Business. Learn and understand the fundamentals of business needed to qualify for entry-level, industry positions. The program provides a well-rounded study of business administration and management principles with a focus on how that knowledge can be applied to the entertainment industry. Students will learn and receive training in management, leadership, marketing, accounting, finance, intellectual property, and other aspects of the business. The program emphasizes business ethics, corporate social responsibility, communication skills, and the role personal values play in the professional life of a business leader. Students also explore topics that are specific to the business of entertainment – artist management, distribution, and more – providing insight into the inner workings of the industry.
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Internet Archive: Movies and Film
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The Entertainment Business, or the Entertainment industry, is a group of sub-industries devoted to entertainment. The entertainment industry is used to describe the mass media companies that control the distribution and manufacture of mass media entertainment. Generally, the entertainment industry includes the fields of theater, film, fine art, dance, opera, music, literary publishing, television, and radio.
The internet can be a wild place, but there are lots of freely-available gems that are useful to entertainment business research. Here are some hand-selected, librarian-approved resources and databases.
To help locate books in a particular subject, the following LOC sections in the Library are as follows:
ML 3790 Music Business
NC 1765 – 1766 Animated films
PN 1993 – 1999 Motion Pictures
TR 897.5 – 897.7 Animated motion pictures
TR 899 – 899.5 Editing of motion pictures
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All You Need to Know about the Music Business by 
The Power of the Actor by 
Blockbusters by 
Hollywood Dealmaking by