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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"film industry"”.
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The Film Industry in Taiwan: A Political Economy Perspective
… of this thesis is to critically analyse the film industry in Taiwan from a political economy perspective and to compare Taiwan’s film industry with that of Hong Kong. The thesis will examine the development of the film industries in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the 1990s and analyse the decline of …
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Creative leadership and management in the KwaZulu-Natal film industry
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.
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Commerce and Culture: The Manchukuo Film Industry from 1937 to 1945
This thesis centers on the Manchuria film industry from 1930s to 1940s, which was sponsored by the Kwangtung Army and Japanese businessmen. As a state-sponsored company, the development of the Manchukuo Film Prduction and Exhibition Company (Man'ei) shaped the history of Manchukuo film industry. In …
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Funding Female Features: Crowdfunding for Gender Equity in the Film Industry
The U.S. feature film industry as a gendered organization, in which networks bound by race, gender, class and overt heterosexuality tend to exclude members of other groups. Hollywood filmmaking is a production process with high uncertainty about how to produce hits, resulting in discretion given to …
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Work in Motion: Labour and Aesthetic Production in the Animated Film Industry
… mediated technological transformations in film production through its self-reflexive engagement with labour. I track the entanglement between animated images and image production through three key inflection points in animation history: beginning with early animation’s pre-industrial roots; …
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Towards a national film industry : a view of the Canadian Film Development Corporation
… neighbour and the making of Canadian feature films is no exception. Because of the proximity of the United States and its economic and social influences on Canada, the Canadian cinema very quickly fell victim to the monopolistic outreach of the vertically integrated American film system and …
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Entrepreneurship and Institutions in Innovation systems research: Evidence from the Nigerian film industry
… By considering the context of the Nigerian film industry innovation system, this thesis showed that entrepreneurs dealt with the deficient institutions by substituting them with informal institutions during their interactions with Nigerian actors, and with formal institutions that looked to …
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South Korean golden-age comedy film: industry, genre, and popular culture (1953-1970)
… dissertation, “South Korean Golden-Age Comedy Film: Industry, Genre, and Popular Culture (1953 -1970),” examines the socio-cultural and political aspects of comedy films made in South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s, the era in which the South Korean nation mobilized in the name of “development” …
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The British film industry and the market for feature films in Britain 1932-37
The regeneration of the British Film Industry after the Cinematograph Act of 1927 was remarkable. On the production side, the industry was transformed from a very low base in the mid-twenties to one which seriously challenged the domestic market share of the Hollywood product a decade later: a …
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The risk and return trade-off in the film industry : a comparative empirical analysis
Despite its proved riskiness, the film industry is one of the most economically relevant industries in the world, constantly undergoing rapid change and development, since every day millions of dollars, pounds, euros or other currencies are invested in film productions. Although restricted to the …
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The Luxembourg film industry seen through the lense of Porter's theories on competition and performance
Title: The Luxembourg Film Industry seen through the lens of Porter’s theories on competition and performance. Author: Ragna Arny Larusdottir Advisor: Bjarni Jonsson Institute: Bifrost University Course: Master Thesis in International Business – 30 credits Purpose: The purpose of this study is to …
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THE METROPOLITAN POLICE AND THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY, 1919-1956: PROCESSES OF COLLABORATION AND CONTROL
… Metropolitan Police embarked upon a series of films depicting its processes in an attempt to strengthen consent for its position within British society. These films were made collaboratively with British film studios and, in the case of the post-1945 films, the collaborating studios were owned …
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The Screenplay Business: Managing creativity in script development in the contemporary British independent film industry
… is sometimes said to be a blueprint for a film, and its genesis and development is therefore important to our understanding of how films are created. Film business studies has traditionally avoided close study of the screenplay development process, perhaps as a result of the film studies …
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The Grey Fox meets Jumanji : the emergence of the feature-film industry in British Columbia
… the emergence since the late 1970s of a feature-film industry in British Columbia. The thesis asserts that the relationship of this cinema its place of production can be best understood in terms of media globalization, rather than in the more conventional terms of national cinema development. …
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Moving Worlds Through Moving Pictures: Exploring the Emancipatory Force of the Contemporary Sámi Film Industry
… of seven individuals involved in the indigenous film industry in the Nordic Arctic. Assisted by the qualified knowledge of this collection of film directors, screenwriters, producers, festival directors, programmers, academics and artists and experience as an audience member at this year’s Tromsø …
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Creating a 'black film industry' : state intervention and films for African audiences in South Africa, 1956-1990.
… namely, the historical construction of a 'black film industry' and the development of a 'black' cinema viewing audience. It does so by focusing on films produced specifically for an African audience using a state subsidy. This subsidy was introduced in 1972 and was separate from the general or …
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The Political economy of the Film Industry in Tanzania: From Socialism to an Open Market economy, 1961-2010
This study examines the film industry in Tanzania from the 1960s to 2010 and assesses how government policies, legislation, and cultural institutions have impacted filmmaking in Tanzania. By employing a critical political economy theoretical framework, the study explores succeeding administrations, …
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Project management and the film industry value chain: the impact of cognitive biases on value creation and learning
… on project management decision-making in the film industry? Are there ways that biases can best be avoided or at least reduced? This thesis cites evidence that managers are consistently unable to devise ways of effectively escaping the impact of cognitive bias, and that the majority are …
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Cinema : an invention without a future? The career prospects for first-time feature film directors in the Australian Film Industry
… the figures showed that almost 66% of feature film directors make only one feature film. The question of how feature film directors build a sustainable career within this sector formed the foundation of this study. This research project involved a series of qualitative case studies, which …
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