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.
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Springer International Publishing
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Illustrationen
8
8 s/w Abbildungen
XIII, 276 p. 8 illus.
Maße
Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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ISBN-13
978-3-030-16898-8 (9783030168988)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-16896-4
Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
