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Framing Piracy examines film distribution--legal and illegal--in the largest, mostly untapped market in the world: Greater China. Tracing networks of optical disc (VCD, DVD) and online piracy, this book tackles issues of politics, globalization, and technology. It features a wealth of original research, new distribution data, and interviews with film distributors, government officials, and film pirates. With changes afoot in China upon its entering the World Trade Organization, this timely book shows that such transformations have far-reaching implications for policy, theory, and practice.
List of contents
Part 1 List of Figures
Part 2 List of Photographs
Part 3 List of Tables
Part 4 Acknowledgments
Part 5 Introduction
Part 6 I: Contexts
Chapter 7 1. Global Film Distribution Revisited: Network, Technology, and Space
Chapter 8 2. Re-Contextualizing Copyright: Technology, Transnational Trade Regimes, and the State
Chapter 9 3. WTO and the Greater China Economic Circle: Local, Regional, and Global Dynamics
Chapter 10 4. VCD Killed the VHS Star
Part 11 II: Case Studies
Chapter 12 5. Film Distribution in Mainland China
Chapter 13 6. Film Piracy in Mainland China
Chapter 14 7. Film Distribution in Taiwan
Chapter 15 8. Profile: Wolf Chen
Chapter 16 9. A Culture of Illegality? Piracy in Taiwan
Chapter 17 10. The Hong Kong Connection: Distribution, Piracy, and Parallel Import
Chapter 18 11. Framing Piracy
Part 19 Appendix A
Part 20 Appendix B
Part 21 Appendix C
Part 22 Bibliography
Part 23 Index
Part 24 About the Author
About the author
By Shujen Wang
