Film Policy in a Globalised Cultural Economy
The past two decades have witnessed major changes in film industries worldwide in response to both economic globalisation and technological developments. The dominant position of Hollywood movies in the global film market has remained largely uncontested, but Hollywood itself has become increasingly international in its operations whilst regional screen industries such as those in East Asia and in the Indian subcontinent have (re-)emerged and developed new forms of collaboration. The advent of digital technologies has also transformed the content of films and the ways in which they are made and consumed. Such changes, in turn, have posed new economic and cultural challenges for policy-makers around the world and led to a degree of rethinking of how film policy objectives are to be conceived, defined and implemented.
This collection brings together a range of international scholars from the USA, Europe and Asia to consider how film policy has responded to the various economic, technological and political shifts shaping the global film industry and to identify the many tensions between global and local, economic and cultural, and public and private policy objectives that have been the result of these changes.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
John Hill is Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and the author or editor of a range of books and journals including British Cinema in the 1980s (1999), Cinema and Northern Ireland (2006) and Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television (2011).
Nobuko Kawashima is Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and Visiting Professor in the Policy Alternatives Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of two books on the creative industries (in Japanese 2009, 2013) and co-editor of Global Culture: Media, Arts, Policy, and Globalization (2002).
Film Policy in a Globalised
Cultural Economy
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Contents
John Hill and Nobuko Kawashima
Michael Curtin
Paul McDonald
John Hill
Randall Halle
Olof Hedling and Per Vesterlund
Armida de la Garza
Brian Yecies
Nobuko Kawashima
The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
John Hill and Nobuko Kawashima
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016) pp. 667672
Michael Curtin
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016) pp. 673685
Paul McDonald
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016) pp. 686705
John Hill
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016) pp. 706723
Randall Halle
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016) pp. 724742
Olof Hedling and Per Vesterlund
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016) pp. 743757
Armida de la Garza
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016) pp. 758769
Brian Yecies
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016) pp. 770786
Nobuko Kawashima
International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 22, issue 5 (November 2016) pp. 787804
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Michael Curtin is the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Film and Media Studies and Director of the 21st Century Global Dynamics Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. His recent books include Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor (2016) and Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood (2017).
Armida de la Garza is Senior Lecturer in Digital Arts and Humanities and Director of International Strategy at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of Mexico on Film: National Identity and International Relations (2007).
Randall Halle is Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of German Film after Germany (2008) and The Europeanization of Cinema (2014).
Olof Hedling writes on Scandinavian film policy and is an Associate Professor of Film Studies based at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden.
John Hill is Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and the author or editor of a range of books and journals including British Cinema in the 1980s (1999), Cinema and Northern Ireland (2006) and Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television (2011).
Nobuko Kawashima is Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and Visiting Professor in the Policy Alternatives Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of two books on the creative industries (in Japanese 2009, 2013) and co-editor of
