This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale. It shows how public funding schemes add value to film-making and other audio-visual productions and provides a comprehensive analysis of todays global challenges in the film industry such as industry change, digital transformation, and shifting audience tastes. Based on insights from fields such as cultural economics, media economics, media management and media governance studies, the authors illustrate how public spending shapes the financial fitness of national and international film industries. This highly informative book will help both scholars and practitioners in the film industry to understand the complexity of issues and the requirements necessary to preserve the social benefits of film as an important cultural good.
Chapter 1: Why Study State Aid for Film? A First Clarification.- Chapter 2: Introducing the Books Topics.- Part I: Exploring Scholarly Themes.- Chapter 3: The Economics of Film Financing: An Introduction.- Chapter 4: Private Equity Finance: The Role of Private Investors in the European Film Market.- Chapter 5: Film Governance in the EU: Caught in a Loop?.- Chapter 6: Governance, Public Interest, and Public Film Funding: Discussing a new Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 7: State Subsidies to Film and their Effects at the Box Office: Theorizing and Measuring Why Some Genres do Better than Others.- Chapter 8: How Film Financing Shapes Project Strategy: Applying Organizational Economics to a Case Study in Norway.- Chapter 9: How Hollywood Applies Industrial Strategies to Counter Market Uncertainty: The Issues of Financing and Exhibition.- Part II: AnalysingCurrent Practices.- Chapter 10: Public Funding for Film and other Audio-visual Works in Europe:?Key Industry Statistics 2010 2014.- Chapter 11: The European Commissions Approach to Film Funding: Striking a Difficult Balance.- Chapter 12: Supporting Film Distribution acrl3
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