East Asian Screen Industries

by Darrell Davis, Alisa Perren (Editor), Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Yannis Tzioumakis (Editor)

Overview

East Asian Screen Industries is a guide to the film industries of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the PRC. The authors examine how local production has responded to global trends and explore the effects of widespread de—regulation and China's accession to the World Trade Organisation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844571819
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/26/2007
Series:	International Screen Industries
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Darrell William Davis is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Alisa Perren is Professor in the Department of Radio—Television—Film and Co—Director of the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries at The University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s (2012), co—editor of Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method (2009), and co—founder and editorial collective member of the journal Media Industries.

Emilie Yueh—Yu Yeh is Associate Professor of Cinema and TV at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.

Yannis Tzioumakis is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, University of Liverpool, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.— Introduction.— East Asian Benchmarks in Policy and Practice.— The New Localism: Alternatives to Blockbuster Benchmarks.— The Power of Small Screens.— Pan—Asian Cinema: Finance, Marketing, Distribution.— Generation: Cultural Commerce and Signature Narratives.— Festivals, Events and Players.— Epilogue: Problems and Prospects for East Asian Screens.— References.— Index.