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3. Theoretical Approaches to the Film Industry and to National Cultural Industries
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The present chapter will attempt to explain why the economic conditions inherent to film products – with the aid or opposition of historical developments – allow certain market structures and certain film industries to prosper while others have to struggle just to produce some barely seen films. On the other hand, it has been the cultural frame in which film creations have been conceptually located, by producers, policymakers, independent distributors, etc, what has allowed many national film industries to exist, in good or bad conditions, with better or worse chances to develop, by triggering different mechanisms of government intervention in order to reduce unbalances of power. Intersections between the economic realities of advanced capitalist conditions and the cultural arguments used by film activists to change those realities should emerge from this theoretical coverage.
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The present chapter will attempt to explain why the economic conditions inherent to film products – with the aid or opposition of historical developments – allow certain market structures and certain film industries to prosper while others have to struggle just to produce some barely seen films. On the other hand, it has been the cultural frame in which film creations have been conceptually located, by producers, policymakers, independent distributors, etc, what has allowed many national film industries to exist, in good or bad conditions, with better or worse chances to develop, by triggering different mechanisms of government intervention in order to reduce unbalances of power. Intersections between the economic realities of advanced capitalist conditions and the cultural arguments used by film activists to change those realities should emerge from this theoretical coverage.
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