Shadow economies of cinema : mapping informal film distribution / Ramon Lobato
- Bib ID:
- 5978244
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lobato, Ramon
- Description:
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- London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- viii, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781844574124
- 1844574121
- 9781844574117
- 1844574113
- Series:
- Cultural histories of cinema.
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: Why distribution?
- Formal and informal film economies
- Shadows, sites and circuits
- 1.Distribution from Above and Below
- Redefining distribution: theory and practice
- Distribution from below
- The cultural politics of distribution
- Conclusion
- 2.The Straight-to-video Slaughterhouse
- `Anything with sprocket holes'
- The STV aesthetic
- Transnational STV circuits
- Shooting and selling STV action in the Asia-Pacific
- The slaughterhouse of cinema
- Conclusion
- 3.Informal Media Economies
- The formal and the informal
- The centrality of informality
- Informal economies of cinema
- Informality, cinema and the state
- Between formal and informal distribution: Tropa de elite
- 4.Nollywood at Large
- A short history of the Nigerian video boom
- The formalising imperative
- Formalising international distribution
- Conclusion
- 5.Six Faces of Piracy
- Copyright and the construction of piracy
- Piracy as theft
- Contents note continued: Piracy as free enterprise
- Piracy as free speech
- Piracy as authorship
- Piracy as resistance
- Piracy as access
- Everyday ethics of piracy in Tepito, Mexico City
- Tepito postscript 2010
- 6.The Grey Internet
- Mapping the online distribution ecology
- Linking sites
- Video-hosting sites
- Cyberlockers
- Informal enforcement on the digital frontier
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Coordinates for Studying Distribution in a Digital Age
- From pipelines to swarms
- Rethinking informational freedom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-161) and index.
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