Audiovisual policy and cultural identity in small European states: the challenge of a unified market

Europudding or Europaradise? A performance evaluation of the Eurimages co-production film fund, twenty years after its inception

“…Drawing on this observation as a starting point and given the scope of this article, I aim to complement more theoretical and/or policy-oriented analyses of European audiovisual policy-making (see e. g. Burgelman and Pauwels, 1992;Collins, 1994;Dale, 1997;Germann, 2008;Harcourt, 2005;Sarikakis, 2007) and instead focus on an empirical case-study of one of the European-level responses to the situation outlined above. In particular, this article sets out to assess the impact the Eurimages fund has had over the past two decades.…”

Globalization and Pluralism

“…First, the critical school, which advocates media protectionism to avoid excessive concentration and to guarantee pluralism, arguing that the communication sector is an industry of great social impact. Media products are also protected because of their cultural nature, and this is understood across international institutions (Burgelman and Pauwels, 1992;Machet, 1998;Shaughnessy, 1990;Wright, 1994). Some viewpoints consider the hegemonic position the media hold from the perspective of critical theory, which takes in some Marxist approaches from sociology, cultural studies and political economy.…”

“…From the academic point of view, there also seems to be a consensus as to the close relationship between public television and pluralism (Blumler, 1992;Wessberg, 2000). In some sectors it is even said that the defence of pluralism is the exclusive role of public broadcasters because business criteria are incompatible with the defence of pluralism (Burgelman and Pauwels, 1992;Dacyl and Westin, 2001).…”

Communications, Corporatism, and Dependent Development in Ireland

“…In line with structuralist Marxist theorizations of the capitalist state, which ultimately view the state as a political instru-' On the contradictions of EU communications policy and its impact on small producing countries in Europe, see Burgelman (1992). ment that functions primarily to secure the interests of a ruling class, public media corporations have often been characterized by critical theorists of the media as part of the ideological apparatus of the state.…”