Full Description
The globalization and digitalization of cultural markets presents formidable challenges for local cinema and storytelling. The essays in this collection address some of these challenges from the perspective of a critical political economy of local cinema. Inspiring these contributions is the effort of supporting local cinema as a form of valuable storytelling that is at risk of market-driven extinction because of the greater commercial viability of global or Hollywood cinema and national cinema.
Contents
Notes on Contributors - Critical political economy and local cinema: An Introduction - Part 1 Local Cinema and Digitization: Distribution and Exhibition - The political economy of participatory community cinemas: CineCiutat as a standpoint of resistance - Elements of a critical political economy of local cinema in Digital Era: Lo-bal process and double aesthetic of cinema in French film exhibitors - Film distribution in Finland: Gatekeepers of local cinema - Terje Gaustad, Anne-Britt Gran, and Øyvind Torp Digitizing local cinema: Lessons on diversity from Norway - The political economy of Khaleeji cinema: Historical developments of Arab Gulf film industries - Part 2 Local Cinema and Globalization: Struggles, Survival and Sustainability - Production of Main Melody Film in Post-Socialist China: A deconstruction of Wolf Warrior 2 - In the land of Finnish Swedish cinema: A look into the political economy of local cinema in Finland - Art against the odds: The struggles, survival and success of New Zealand local cinema - Market censorship and Finnish cinema - Sustainability as a framework of analysis and a guide for policy-making: The film industry in Wellington, New Zealand
