Abstract
Neo-liberal culture puts a major emphasis on the importance of continual economic growth as a necessary strategy for any given industry. However, analysing adaptation trends of economic growth in the contemporary Swedish, Danish, and Finnish film industries between 2010 and 2019, based on data gathered from LUMIERE, suggests that all three film industries do not demonstrate significant growth trends–not in terms of the number of films produced, admissions growth, and number of co-producer partners. Hence, it can be concluded that these film industries should consider a better adaptation strategy to neo-liberal market principles. Or perhaps in the streaming area, when movie theatres are losing their prestige, a better adaptation strategy to neo-liberal market principles is needed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 158-181 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Media Business Studies |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 Media Management and Transformation Centre.
Funding
Sweden – The first permanent cinema was established in Sweden in 1902 (Sundholm et al., ). From then on, Sweden’s film industry has come to be of great importance to employment, regional development, and international competitiveness, as well as to wider social goals (Power, ). In terms of finance adaptation via film co-production, the Swedish film industry enjoys the support of 4 regional film funds and the Swedish Film Institute. The Swedish Film Institute’s aim of funding co-productions is to strengthen working relationships between Swedish production companies and foreign producers. In 2018, the Swedish Film Institute supported 9 minority co-production feature films, 7 of them (78%) with Nordic countries. In 2019, the Swedish Film Institute supported 13 minority co-production feature films, 9 of them (69%) with Nordic countries.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Swedish Film Institute |
Keywords
- Adaptation
- Denmark
- Finland
- Sweden
- co-production
- film market
- neoliberalism
