Global Film Policies - New Perspectives

This book challenges conventional analyses of film policy as a stand-alone public policy confined within national boundaries, and usually focused on supports for film production. It book will be an important resource for scholars and students studying global film policy in the areas of film, media or creative industries, and business.

List of contents

Introduction: New perspectives on film policy
1. Tax incentives in the audiovisual landscape: The economic and the cultural
2. Accidents waiting to happen? Policies, practices, and pitfalls in keeping film and TV workers safe
3. Soft power, nation branding and public diplomacy
4. Regional futures, civilisational pasts: Unravelling the spacetime of Sino-Indian film co-production
5. Film policy, sociolinguistic politics and Chinese-language film industries
6. Between economic development and social inclusion: Film education and training policy in the UK and Europe
7. EDI film policies and their discontents
8. Rethinking cultural imperialism: The Ibermedia programme
9. UNESCO's convention for the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions: International obligations, local priorities
10. European film and television policy in the streaming era: Beyond the 2018 AVMSD
Index

About the author

Ruby Cheung is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK.
John Hill is Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Nobuko Kawashima is Professor at the Faculty of Economics at Doshisha University, Japan.
Paul McDonald is Professor of Media Industries at King's College London, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Ruby (University of Southampton Cheung
• Assisted by: Cheung Ruby (Editor), John Hill (Editor), Hill John (Editor), Kawashima Nobuko (Editor), Paul Mcdonald (Editor), McDonald Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.07.2025
• EAN: 9780367774158
• ISBN: 978-0-367-77415-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, PERFORMING ARTS / Business Aspects, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, The arts, Humanities, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry