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Opus: Database dedicated to national legislation concerning the promotion of European audiovisual works across Europe
European Audiovisual Observatory, Council of Europe (2025)
"This database provides a comprehensive overview of how EU member states, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the UK have transposed key articles of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), on the promotion of European and independent works, specifically Articles 13 (media servi
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Media in Africa: Issues and Critiques
New York; London: Routledge (2024), 232 pp.
"Featuring contributions from global scholars, that represent both new and established voices on the African continent and the diaspora, this volume explores themes of decolonization, media freedom, media censorship, identity, representation, pluralism, media framing, political economy of the media
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The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media
London: Bloomsbury;British Film Institute (bfi) (2023), ix, 174 pp.
"New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry. Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world of social media platforms and their impact on contemporary film and television production, arguing that t
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Estudios sobre la industria de contenidos audiovisuales y pluralismo informativo en Colombia
Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRCOM) (2021), 33 pp.
"Fruto de la convergencia tecnológica la industria de Contenidos audiovisuales ha cambiado en Colombia. Si bien, la audiencia continúa accediendo a los contenidos a través de TV (sea por señal abierta o por TV por suscripción), el fenómeno de acceso a contenidos difundidos por internet a travÃ
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Development of the Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxv, 243 pp.
"The global film industry has witnessed significant transformation in the past few years. Regions outside the US have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies, such as Netflix have assumed a larger market share, and online movies adapted from literature have continued to gain in p
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The African Film Industry: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Growth
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Paris: UNESCO (2021), 271 pp.
"For the first time, a complete mapping of the film and audiovisual industry in 54 States of the African continent is available, including quantitative and qualitative data and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses at the continental and regional levels. The report proposes strategic recomme
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The Celluloid Ceiling: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Israeli Film Industry
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Adva Center (2021), 86 pp.
"This report examines the Israeli film industry from the perspective of gender. Over the past twenty years, there has been a growing involvement of women in the Israeli film industry. Since the establishment of Israel and up until the year 2000, women directed a mere 7% of screened Israeli narrative
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Film ab! Kunst, Geschäft und Widerstand: Kino im globalen Süden
welt-sichten, issue 6 (2020), pp. 12-33
"Viele Filme aus Ländern in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika befassen sich phantasievoll mit gesellschaftlichen Fragen. Unter welchen Bedingungen arbeiten Regisseurinnen in Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien? Warum sind afrikanische Religionen und Riten ein Thema im jungen nigerianischen Kino? Und wie g
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The Political Economy of Local Cinema: A Critical Introduction
Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2020), 257 pp.
"The essays in this collection focus on [...] the organization of material and immaterial resources necessary for local cinema to endure as a valuable and vibrant alternative to other forms of cinema. In line with the mission of applied research, the main normative goal inspiring our project is rath
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Global Media and Cultural Policy: The European Union and Audiovisual Industries in the Global South
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Doctoral Thesis (2019), viii, 193 pp.
"This dissertation explores audiovisual assistance programs through an examination of the largest such program: the EU’s ACPCultures+, which since 2008 has awarded over 50 million Euros to nearly 60 audiovisual training programs, distribution initiatives, and production projects in sub-Saharan Afr
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L'audiovisuel africain et la capitalisme global
Politique Africaine, issue 153 (2019), pp. 7-159
"Ce dossier se concentre sur ces transformations plus récentes afin d’analyser leur impact sur l’économie et la politique de la production et de la distribution audiovisuelle en Afrique, tout en mettant en question les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques que nous adoptons en tant que cherch
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New Video Generation: The Myanmar Motion Picture Industry in 2017
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Lisa Brooten; Jane Madlyn McElhone; Gayathry Venkiteswaran (eds.)
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 287-306
"Following a summary of secondary and primary sources on the subject of film production in Burma, I will present an overview of the history of the Burmese film industry, from the British colonial period, to independence, to the years of the Burmese Socialist Program Party, and then the SLORC/SPDC ye
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Latin American Film Industries
London; New York: Bloomsbury;British Film Institute (bfi) (2019), ix, 193 pp.
"Focusing in particular on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, Tamara Falicov examines commonalities among Latin American film industries, such as the challenges of procuring funding, competition from Hollywood, state funding battles, and the fickle nature of audiences, as well as censorship issues, compe
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Produire des films: Afriques et Moyen Orient
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion (2018), 386 pp.
"Dans des pays caractérisés par une profusion d’images essentiellement venues d’autres continents, et par une production très inégale, voire inexistante, quels ont été les modèles dominants de production ? Quels sont ceux que les mutations en cours font émerger ? Quels sont les enjeux é
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Mediciones culturales. Resultados del proyecto: Elaboración e implementación de la Cuenta Satélite de Cultura, CSC, en los paÃses del área andina
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Lima: Ministerio de Cultura y Turismo de Bolivia;Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia;Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio de Ecuador;Ministerio de Cultura de Perú (2017), 284 pp.
Diversidad e industria audiovisual: El desafÃo cultural del siglo XXI
México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2017), 331 pp.
Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
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Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar;Doha Film Institute (2016), 174 pp.
"This report contains the collected, examined, and produced information on the fundamental characteristics of the media and communication industries, whenever possible, in the MENA region as a whole. It typically includes 14 countries from Mauritania on the Atlantic Ocean to Oman on the Arab Gulf. F
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Nollywood Central
London: Palgrave Macmillan;British Film Institute (bfi) (2016), 175 pp.
"Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning video film industry, Jade L. Miller reveals that this portrayal is over-simplistic and often untrue.
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Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2015), xix, 380 pp.
"Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture in turmoil. Birgit Meyer captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination
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African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2013), xii, 246 pp.
"African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstan
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