Table of Contents

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Distribution from Above and Below.- The Straight-to-video Slaughterhouse.- Informal Media Economies.- Nollywood at Large.- Six Faces of Piracy.- The Grey Internet.- Conclusion: Coordinates for Studying Distribution in a Digital Age.- Appendix: A Film Distribution Research Guide.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

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'Shadow Economies of Cinema is a strong addition to the literature on contemporary industry studies. It also demonstrates an admirable grasp of wide range of fields upon which cinema studies is starting to impinge. Lobato ends with a call for cinema studies "to open up a dialogue with other fields that specialise in cultural circulation from anthropology to economics.' - Screening the Past 'Shadow Economies is a valuable contribution to reimagine the experience of cinema beyond the classic focus on representation. International in its scope, and lucid in its theoretical exposition, it will find interest among academic and non academic readers.' - Senses of Cinema 'From the US video economy to illegal peer-to-peer file sharing, Shadow Economies of Cinema offers a cross-nation, formal/informal mapping of some of the complexities of film distribution, seeking to foreground areas of the field that are largely unquantifiable and do not necessarily appear in the trade press.' - New Review of Film and Television Studies

About the Author

RAMON LOBATO Research Fellow at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Reviews

Shadow Economies of Cinema is a strong addition to the literature on contemporary industry studies. It also demonstrates an admirable grasp of wide range of fields upon which cinema studies is starting to impinge. Lobato ends with a call for cinema studies "to open up a dialogue with other fields that specialise in cultural circulation from anthropology to economics." -- Screening the Past
Shadow Economies is a valuable contribution to reimagine the experience of cinema beyond the classic focus on representation. International in its scope, and lucid in its theoretical exposition, it will find interest among academic and non-academic readers. -- Senses of Cinema
From the US video economy to illegal peer-to-peer file sharing, Shadow Economies of Cinema offers a cross-nation, formal/informal mapping of some of the complexities of film distribution, seeking to foreground areas of the field that are largely unquantifiable and do not necessarily appear in the trade press. -- New Review of Film and Television Studies