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.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Roderik Smits
EAN: 9783030168957
COUNTRY: Switzerland
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WEIGHT: 508 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-07-19
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GENRE: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
WIDTH: 148 cm
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Book Themes:
Films, cinema, Cultural studies, Media studies, Politics and government
Roderik Smits is Research Associate in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York, UK. He is interested in the changing nature of the film industry and his research has been published in Poetics, Studies in European Cinema, Arts and the Market, Cultural Trends and the Journal of British Cinema and Television.
