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Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses

A Cross-National Perspective

This edited collection focuses on successful small and medium-sized film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The contributors explore case studies of businesses that have prospered over a period of at least five years and have made several successful productions, both in terms of popularity and critical acclaim. The chapters investigate each company’s history and evolution and offer comparisons and contrasts. The book presents an overview of the film and television sectors in each country and draws together the common elements that may explain how they have been able to survive and thrive.
 
Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses provides a truly cross-national, comparative dialogue that is vital to the field of media industry studies today.
 

300 pages | 15 tables, 1 chart | 7 x 9 | © 2017

Economics and Business: Business--Business Economics and Management Studies

Film Studies


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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
 
Chapter 1: Introduction
                Eva Bakøy, Roel Pujik and Andrew Spicer
 
Chapter 2: The Film and Television Industries in Norway
                Jo Sondre Moseng
 
Chapter 3: Leadership Practices in the Norwegian Film Industry
                Eva Bakøy
 
Chapter 4: Co-Produced Television Drama and the Cost of Transnational ‘Success’: The Making of Lilyhammer
                Vilde Schanke Sundet
 
Chapter 5: Different Places, Different Stories? The Importance of Place in Regional Film and Television Production
                Stine Sand
 
Chapter 6: An Introduction to the Danish Film and Television Industries – A Small Country Successfully Producing Drama
                Heidi Philipsen and Roel Puijk
 
Chapter 7: Zentropa: A Successful Danish Film Company – ‘A State of “Emergency” Is a Good Position to Be in’
                Heidi Philipsen
 
Chapter 8: The Means and Meanings of Being Independent: Competing Truths in the Television Company STV
                Søren Birkvad
 
Chapter 9: Embracing the International Market: The Dutch Film and Television Production Landscape in Transition
                Eggo Müller and Daisy van de Zande
 
Chapter 10: Innovation in the Independent Dutch Film Production Companies Column Film and Rinkel Film
                Willemien Sanders and Roel Pujik
 
Chapter 11: The Professional Is Personal: A Comparison Between the Dutch Television Production Companies JVtv and BlazHoffski
 
Chapter 12: The Finance and Production of Independent Film and Television in the United Kingdom: A Critical Introduction
                Steve Presence
 
Chapter 13: Staying Alive as an Indie: How Three UK Companies Build and Sustain Their Businesses
                Audun Englestad
 
Chapter 14: ‘It’s Our Property and Our Passion’: Managing Creativity in a Successful Company – Aardman Animations
                Andrew Spicer
 
Chapter 15: Conclusion
                Eva Bakøy, Roel Pujik and Andrew Spicer
 
Notes on Contributors
 
Index
 

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