Gatekeeping In The Evolving Business Of Independent Film Distribution

Author : Roderik Smits
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030168964

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Gatekeeping in the Evolving Business of Independent Film Distribution by Roderik Smits Pdf

This book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves. Considering sales agents and distributors as primary gatekeepers, the book examines the networks in which they operate, how they operate, how their practices have evolved, and the power and control they exert over the business of independent film distribution. Critically, it also considers how they are affected by the powerful influence of Netflix and Amazon in the online era. At a time of disruption and change to traditional business models and industry professions, Roderik Smits argues that gatekeepers remain equally – if not more – crucial to the distribution and circulation of films in international markets.

Author : Haina Jin,Anna Stecher,Rebecca Ehrenwirth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031267796

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Contemporary German–Chinese Cultures in Dialogue by Haina Jin,Anna Stecher,Rebecca Ehrenwirth Pdf

This book provides a unique perspective on contemporary German and Chinese cultural encounters. Moving away from highlighting exchanges between the two countries in terms of colonial connections, religious influences and philosophical impacts, the book instead focuses on the vast array of modern cultural dialogues that have influenced both countries, especially in literature, theatre and film. The book discusses issues of translation, adaptation, and reception to reveal a unique cultural relationship. The editors and contributors examine the existing programs and strategies for cultural interchange, and analyse how these shape or have shaped intercultural dialogue, and what kind of intercultural exchange is encouraged. This book is of interest to students and researchers of film and media studies, Sinophone studies, transnational studies, cultural studies and social and cultural anthropology.

Author : Michael Franklin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000618075

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Risk in the Film Business by Michael Franklin Pdf

This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. How risk is understood and managed has a substantial impact upon which films are financed, produced and seen. Founded on substantial original research accessing the highest level of industry practitioners, this book examines the intertwined activity of independents, large media companies including major studios, the international marketplace, and related audio-visual sectors such as high-end television. The book shows how risk is generally framed, or even intuited, rather than calculated, and that this process occurs across a sliding scale of formality. This work goes beyond broad creative industries characterisations of a "risky sector" and concentrations on Box Office return modelling, to provide a missing middle. This means a coherent analytic coverage of business organisation and project construction to address the complex practicalities that mobilise strategic operations in relation to risk, often in unseen business-to-business contexts. Informed by economic sociology’s concepts addressing market assemblage and valuation, alongside applications of science and technology studies to media and communications, the book respects both the powerful roles of social and institutional actors, and affordances of new technologies in dealing with the persistent known unknown – the audience. Examining a persistent business issue in a new way, this book analyses top level industry practice through established mechanisms, and innovations like data analytics. The result is a book that will be essential reading for scholars with an interest in the film business as well as risk management more broadly.

Author : Paul McDonald,Courtney Brannon Donoghue,Timothy Havens
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479806805

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Digital Media Distribution by Paul McDonald,Courtney Brannon Donoghue,Timothy Havens Pdf

A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and distribution In the twenty-first century, the platforms that both create and host content have become nearly as important as media itself. Companies such as Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube have attained a massive hold on the public imagination and have become an almost ineluctable part of people’s everyday lives. While the workings of media distribution had until very recently remained inconsequential to the average consumer, the recent popularization of various online platforms has made the question of distribution immediate to everyone. Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines provides a timely examination of the multifaceted distribution landscape in a moment of transformation and conceptualizes media distribution as a complex site of power, privilege, and gatekeeping. These tensions have local, national, and global consequences on the autonomy of creative workers, as well as on how we gain access to, engage with, and understand cultural products. Drawing on original research into distribution practices in industries as diverse as television, film, videogames, literature, and adult entertainment, each chapter explores how digitization has changed media distribution and its broader economic, industrial, social, and cultural implications. Bringing together experts from around the world and across the media industries, Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines presents a vast array of critical approaches and illustrative case studies for understanding the factors that have an impact on the way media travels and moves throughout our digital lives.

Author : Christopher Meir
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031421822

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European Cinema in the Streaming Era by Christopher Meir Pdf

Author : Stefano Baschiera,Alexander Fisher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501348600

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World Cinema On Demand by Stefano Baschiera,Alexander Fisher Pdf

World Cinema on Demand brings together diverse contributions by leading film and media scholars to examine world cinema's dialogue with the transformations that took place during 2010-2014, engaging directly with ongoing debates surrounding national cinema, transnational identity, and cultural globalization, as well as ideas about genre, fandom and cinephilia. The contributions look at individual national patterns of online distribution, engaging with archives, SVODS and torrent communities. The essays also investigate the cross-cultural presence of world cinema in non-domestic online markets (such as Europe's, for example). As a result, the volume sheds light on geo-politically specific issues of film circulation, consumption and preservation within a range of culturally diverse filmmaking contexts, including case studies from India, Nigeria, Mexico and China. In this way, the collection maps the impact of different online formats of distribution in the understanding of World Cinema, underlining the links between distribution and media provisions as well as engaging with new forms of intermediation.

Author : Mattias Frey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030800765

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MUBI and the Curation Model of Video on Demand by Mattias Frey Pdf

Subscription video on demand (SVOD) represents the fastest-growing means to consume films and series. Although market leaders Netflix and Amazon Prime have received much scholarly attention for the way that they use algorithms and big data to connect users to content, there is another significant, relatively unexamined model: curation-style services such as BFI Player, IFC Unlimited, the Criterion Channel or MUBI — the latter, which forms the focus of this book, claims to be the world's most subscribed independent video on demand service. These platforms take advantage of common anxieties about algorithms, cultural surplus and filter bubbles to promote discovery, human-generated recommendations and quality over quantity of content. Deploying an original, holistic methodology that includes analysis of technological affordances, marketing rhetoric, business models, interviews with company executives and a qualiquantitative audience study, this book critically analyses MUBI as a way to understand this particular mode of content aggregation, cultural recommendation, choice architecture and community building. Curation services address a real, but decidedly circumscribed gap in the market. Ultimately, MUBI offers film, media and business scholars an instructive example of the fate of art cinema and media diversity in a digital culture increasingly dominated by a few giant tech companies.

Author : Ann Vogel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789004523968

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Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism by Ann Vogel Pdf

Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these non-profit organizations work as they do: by attracting people who work for free, while appealing to businesses and policymakers as a cheap means to illuminate the creative city and draw attention to film art. Ann Vogel’s unprecedented systematic sociological analysis thus provides firm evidence for the ‘festival effect’, which situates the festival as a key intermediary in cinema value chains, yet also demonstrates the impact of such event culture on cultural workers’ lives. By probing the various resources and institutional pillars ensuring that the festivalization of capitalism is here to stay, Vogel urges us to think critically about publicly displayed benevolence in the context of cinema—and beyond.

Author : Steven Hadley,Katya Johanson,Ben Walmsley,Anne Torreggiani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003824237

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Audience Data and Research by Steven Hadley,Katya Johanson,Ben Walmsley,Anne Torreggiani Pdf

This book presents a wide range of new audience studies research in the performing arts to provide a diversity of perspectives from scholarship, policy, management and practice. It explores the insights different methodologies, carried out with different kinds of audiences, can contribute both to our immediate understanding of audiences and to the future development of audience research. The book showcases research across the myriad fields that contribute to audience scholarship, highlighting the ability of audience research to engage thinkers and practitioners, from across often falsely divided art forms and academic fields. Together in one volume, these different methodologies explore the potential complementarity of evolving approaches to audience research and provide an in-depth opportunity for investigating innovative methods. Focusing on the need to understand audiences in a deeper and richer way, this volume offers a crucible of thinking and re-thinking about how society understands the impact of arts and culture on audiences. Audience Data and Research: Perspectives from Cultural Policy, Arts Management and Practice serves as a catalyst to stimulate new critical debate on the potential of empirical audience research to provide fresh insights into questions of audience enrichment and cultural value. It will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of audience studies, media and cultural studies, performance arts research, arts management, and cultural policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Trends.

Author : Suzanne Mary Donahue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015012885763

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American Film Distribution by Suzanne Mary Donahue Pdf

Index and bibliography included.

Author : Stacey Parks
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136066382

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The Insider's Guide to Independent Film Distribution by Stacey Parks Pdf

Innovation in technology means that almost anyone can make an independent film these days. Although this may be good news for aspiring filmmakers, it also means that the oversupply of independent films on the market has caused acquisition prices to dramatically decrease. As a result, producers and investors rarely recover their initial investment in the films they make. But don't be discouraged! Use this book to learn the realities of the market in advance and map out a winning distribution plan. This comprehensive manual for filmmakers and producers dedicated to film distribution and the marketplace could mean the difference between getting your film out to the public and keeping it "in the can." Learn how to sell your movie to a studio, a cable network, a video distributor, or international buyers. Self-distribution and other alternatives to traditional distribution are also considered. As well, you'll hear some success stories from producers and hear directly from buyers what they are seeking. Stacey Parks has worked with dozens of hungry filmmakers to get their films a distribution deal and knows how frustrating the whole process can be. Let her tell you how you can take control of your filmmaking career and start getting your work seen by audiences with a few little-known distribution secrets. Features include: * Interviews and case studies with producers and distributors * Ten Ways to Market Your Film for Self-Distribution * Sales Projections per Territory * Distribution Resource Listings * Negotiation tips for distribution agreements * Sample distribution agreements

Author : Louise Levison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000545685

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Filmmakers and Financing by Louise Levison Pdf

This updated ninth edition of Louise Levison’s ultimate filmmaker’s guide provides easy-to-follow steps for writing an investor-winning business plan for independent films. This new edition includes information on current distribution models and the evolving digital streaming service landscape. Updated examples and references solidify this edition as the go-to source for creating a successful film business plan. Complete with comprehensive explanations on how to write each of the eight sections of a business plan; a complete sample plan for reference; and a companion website with additional information and financial tables, this book gives readers the tools needed to secure financing for a film. Essential reading for students and professionals alike, this book is ideal for anyone looking to further their understanding of film financing and how to create a successful business plan.

Author : Minhae Shim,Erin Trahan,Michele Meek
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1494807904

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The Independent's Guide to Film Distribution by Minhae Shim,Erin Trahan,Michele Meek Pdf

The Independent's Guide to Film Distribution, Second Edition is the definitive guide to North American independent film and media distributors and a crucial tool for filmmakers who want to find their audience. The updated edition features a directory of more than 200 distribution companies that acquire narrative features, documentaries, experimental films, shorts, and more. There's also advice from experts, as well as conversations with principals at Oscilloscope Laboratories, Sony Pictures Classics, Drafthouse Films, New Day Films and other industry leaders. Whether you're new to DIY distribution, or a veteran of independent film, this is an indispensable resource.

Author : Jonathan Wroot,Andy Willis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319627588

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DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond by Jonathan Wroot,Andy Willis Pdf

This book demonstrates, in contrast to statistics that show declining consumption of physical formats, that there has not been a mass shift towards purely digital media. Physical releases such as special editions, DVD box-sets and Blu-Rays are frequently promoted and sought out by consumers. And that past formats such as VHS, Laserdisc and HD-DVD make for sought-after collectible items. These trends are also found within particular genres and niche categories, such as documentary, education and independent film distribution. Through its case studies, this collection makes a distinctive and significant intervention in highlighting the ways in which the film industry has responded to rapidly changing markets. This volume, global in scope, will prove useful to those studying the distribution and exhibition of films, and the economics of the film industry around the world.

Author : Jon M. Garon
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781569763971

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The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide by Jon M. Garon Pdf

Preparing independent or guerrilla filmmakers for the legal, financial, and organizational questions that can doom a project if unanswered, this guide demystifies issues such as developing a concept, founding a film company, obtaining financing, securing locations, casting, shooting, granting screen credits, distributing, exhibiting, and marketing a film. Updated to include digital marketing and distribution strategies through YouTube or webisodes, it also anticipates the problems generated by a blockbuster hit: sound tracks, merchandizing, and licensing. Six appendices provide sample contracts, copyright forms and circulars, Writer's Guild of America definitions for writing credits, and studio contact information.