European Screen Agencies

Cultural Intermediaries in the Film and Television Sector
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-24439-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies

This book offers the first transnational account of screen agencies as a collective body supporting and shaping the European screen sector. Alternatively known as film funds or film institutes, screen agencies are publicly funded bodies which intervene at each stage of the value chain for film and television content. Agencies such as the Danish Film Institute, Creative Scotland, Screen Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen  perform a diverse range of functions including allocating funds, developing talent, fostering international collaborations, and promoting cultural value. They play a crucial role in mitigating the risks associated with creative production, and within smaller nations - the focus of this research – their attempts to leverage scale make their role even more significant within the sector. Using original empirical research gathered from interviews conducted with those working within national agencies in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, this book offers critical insight into international screen production through the institutional lens of screen agencies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noonan, Caitriona

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: Setting the Scene.- 1: Introduction: Why Screen Agencies Matter.- 2: Researching National Screen Agencies as Cultural Intermediaries.- 3: Following the Money: Capital Flows and Policy Priorities.- PART II: Negotiating Value and Values.- 4: Balancing Cultural and Economic Value.- 5: ‘Open for Business’: Building scale and capacity.- 6: Talent Development within Screen Agencies.- PART III: Screen Agencies and Power.- 7: Cultivating Power: Legitimacy, Trust and Expertise.- 8: Evaluation Practices: Managing Transparency and Taste.- 9: Governance and Screen Agencies.- 10: Intermediating Social Change: Labour Equality and Climate Positive Production.- 11: Conclusion: Are Screen Agencies Worth the Public Investment?.

Über Autor(innen)

Caitriona Noonan is Reader in Media and Communication in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC).  Her areas of expertise include television production, public service broadcasting, creative labour and cultural policy. Caitriona was principal investigator on an AHRC-funded project 'Screen Agencies as Cultural Intermediaries: Negotiating and Shaping Cultural Policy for the Film and TV Industries within Small Nations'. She is co-author of the book Producing British Television Drama: Local Production in a Global Era (Palgrave, 2019) and her articles appear in journals such as the  ,  , and the  .