Description
This volume explores and interrogates the shifts and changes in both government and industry-based screen policies over the past 30 years. It covers a diverse range of film industries from different parts of the world, along with the interrelationship between different localities, policy regimes and technologies/media. Featuring in-depth case studies and interviews with practitioners and policy-makers, this book provides a timely overview of government and industry’s responses to the changing landscape of the production, distribution, and consumption of screen media.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Stuart Cunningham
Introduction
Nolwenn Mingant and Cecilia Tirtaine
Part I: The Traditional Film Policy Paradigm
Introduction
Nolwenn Mingant and Cecilia Tirtaine
1. ‘France needs to position itself on the global media map, as a cultural reference and a production centre.’
An interview with Stephan Bender
2. A Fragile Industry: Government Policy and Dubbing in Quebec
A case study by Christine York
3. Monitored Relations: The US Film Industry, Chinese Film Policy and Soft Power
Deron Overpeck
4. Cool Japan and Heated Politics: Japanese Film and Media Policies within the Economic Politics of Global Markets
Jennifer DeWinter
5. ‘Sophisticated Cyber Terrorists’: The Film Industry, Rhetoric, and National Security
A case study by Mike Van Esler
6. National Film Policies: Discourses and Loopholes
A case study by Joël Augros
Part II: The Film Policy Power Struggle
Introduction
Nolwenn Mingant and Cecilia Tirtaine
7. ‘Qualified personalities’: Sociology of the French ‘Media Government’ from Television to the Digital Era
Olivier Alexandre
8. Informal Collaborations and Formal Agreements: Chinese-Korean Film Encounters
Brian Yecies
9. ‘The Petrol in Our Tank’: Public-Private Collaboration in Indian State Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics (AVGC) Policy
Timothy Jones
10. ‘Unionization of visual effects is inevitable’
An interview with Joe Pavlo
11. Tiptoeing the Red Line: PureMovies and Censorship in China
A case study by Tiecheng Li
12. Bridging the Gap: Towards a Dialogue between Screen Production, Policy and Scholarship
Julia Hammett-Jamart
Part III: The Film Policy Tangle
Introduction
Nolwenn Mingant and Cecilia Tirtaine
13. The Ibermedia Programme: How Supranational Policy Developed the Ibero-American Audiovisual Space
Carmina Crusafon
14. Towards a New Film Policy Map in Argentina
A case study by Leandro Gonzalez
15. ‘I have to make a round of every country’s funding systems.’
An interview with Sabine Sidawi
16. Cross-Border Collaboration: Sub-National Film Policies and Cultural Frameworks in Belgium and France
Jamie Steele
17. Between YU and the EU: The Europeanization of the Serbian Film Policies
Petar Mitric
18) Reconciling Economic and Cultural Goals in Film Policy: Propositions from Europe
A case study by Anna Herold and Claudia Golser
PART IV: (Re)Inventing the Film Policy Paradigm
Introduction
Nolwenn Mingant and Cecilia Tirtaine
19) Talking to Netflix with a Canadian Accent: On Digital Platforms and National Media Policies
Ira Wagman
20) One Script, Several Films: Public Policies and the Digitisation of Movie Theatres in the United States, France and Quebec
Aurélie Pinto
21) "Unwilling and Powerless: Facing Illegal Distribution and Exhibition in Chad"
A case study by Patrick Ndiltah
22) From Film Policy to Creative Screen Policies: Media Convergence and Film Policy Trends in Flanders
A case study by Gertjan Willems, Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers, and Roel Vande Winkel
23) South African Post-Apartheid Film Policy: Shifting Discourses on Film, National Identity and Cultural/Creative Industries"
Natalie Kowalik and Philippe Meers
24) The Vertical Axis of Film Policies in Europe: Between Subsidiarity and Local Anarchy
Marco Cucco
25) The Film Code ‘will promote the development of the film industry and make Togolese cinema visible and competitive internationally.’
An interview with Komi Ati
26) Films ex-nihilo: Abu Dhabi’s ‘Greenfields Film and Media Policy Model’
Nolwenn Mingant
