Hollywood film music

Post date: Dec 02, 2011 3:8:17 PM

Overview

Network Dataset

The dataset name is Movies, and includes the following:

• • Movies.net: two-mode network with 102 vertices (40 composers and 62 producers), 192 valued edges (cooperation of producer and composer; line values represent the number of films cooperated on).

  • Movies_top_composers.clu: identification of the five top composers (1 - top 5 composer, 0 - not a top 5 composer).

Background

This network contains the collaboration of 40 composers of film scores and the 62 producers who produced a minimum of five movies in Hollywood, 1964-1976. This is a 2-mode network: a line between a composer and a producer indicates that the former created the soundtrack for the movie produced by the latter. The line values indicate the number of movies by one producer for which the composer created the music in the period 1964- 1976. The five top composers, each of whom earned 1.5% or more of the total income of Hollywood movie score composers in the 1960s and 1970s, are identified.

References

• • Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand. Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1983).

  • W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, & V. Batagelj, Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 5.

History

• • Original author: Robert R. Faulkner (University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Department of Sociology, Thompson Hall, 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003-9277; [email protected]).

  • Data compiled into Pajek data files by W. de Nooy, 2001.