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The editors of FILM STUDIES are pleased to announce the release of number 14, the second part of a double issue on the subject of ‘Institutions and Agency’.

 

Under the auspices of the new film history, media industry studies, the new political economy of communication and others, film and media scholars have increasingly attended to institutions. This trend agitates against the long disciplinary tradition by which media have been appreciated as the expressions of subjective visions and artistic designs. To be sure, the new institutional approaches are not without their critics, who have maligned them as inflexible, reductive and ignorant of extra-economic motivations, cultural inflections and individual decisions.

 

How can film and media scholarship effectively seek both macro and micro explanations and attend to both larger networks and human agency? Part II of this special issue of Film Studies seeks to answer this question by collecting a diverse series of case studies that illustrate such comprehensive approaches.

 

Access online (including past issues) via:


http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/journals/film-studies/


Editorial: Institutions and Agency (Part II)

Mattias Frey

 

Articles

Autonomy and Dependency in Two Successful UK Film and Television Companies: An Analysis of RED Production Company and Warp Films

Andrew Spicer and Steven Presence 

 

Quantifying National Cinema: A Case Study of the Irish Film Board

1993–2013

Roddy Flynn and Tony Tracy 

 

How to Write a Horror Film: The Awakening (2011) and Development

Practices in the British Film Industry

Alison Peirse

 

Individual, Network, Assemblage: Creating Connections on the Global

Film Festival Circuit

Luke Robinson

 

Elevating the Film Review: Critics and Critical Practice at the Monthly

Film Bulletin

Richard Lowell MacDonald 

 

Book Reviews of:

David Andrews, Theorizing Art Cinemas: Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond



Michael Curtin, Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson (eds), Distribution

Revolution: Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television

 

Karina Aveyard and Albert Moran (eds), Watching Films: New Perspectives

On Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception

 

Barrie Gunter, Celebrity Capital: Assessing the Value of Fame

 

Peter Bosma, Film Programming. Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives



Dr Mattias Frey
Reader in Film
Managing Director, Centre for Film and Media Research
Director of Learning and Teaching, School of Arts
Co-Editor, Film Studies
University of Kent - Jarman School of Arts, 2-26 - Canterbury CT2 7UG - UK

NEW 2016: Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture

NEW 2016: Film Studies 13 & 14 on 'Institutions and Agency'

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