Home Is Where Hollywood Isn’t: Recasting East Asian Film Industries

Yeh, Yueh Yu

doi:10.3998/mij.15031809.0001.212

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“…Hoyler and Watson (2019) have employed a social network analysis of film productions in several countries (e.g., China, Germany and France). For example, in China, the film industry has recovered driven by the economic reform and marketisation (Yeh, 2014). However, there remains significant state control over film production (Curtin, 2016).…”

Section: Network and Institutional Contextmentioning

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Network dynamics and institutional context in China's film industry

Zhu,

Jin,

Wen

et al. 2023

Geographical Journal

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Existing literature has explored how different firm behaviours and strategies in different institutional contexts result in variegation in network structures. Based on those studies, this paper first examines how networks have been shaped by China's institutional transition in general and the process of marketisation in particular. Furthermore, we stress that the rise of networks in China's film industry has in return boosted the development of private firms and subsequently pushed forward the process of marketisation in this industry. Empirical results show that private firms have benefitted more from the complementarity between direct knowledge spillovers via inter‐firm networks and indirect knowledge spillovers via inter‐city networks, while state‐owned enterprises are incapable of coping with the competition effects stemming from inter‐city networks and fail to benefit from trans‐local knowledge spillovers in networks. Our main contribution is thus to direct attention to the interaction between network dynamics and institutional transition, which remains underexplored in the current literature.

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Section: Network and Institutional Contextmentioning

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Network dynamics and institutional context in China's film industry

Zhu,

Jin,

Wen

et al. 2023

Geographical Journal

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“…By the mid-2000s, the Chinese film industry had recovered, increasing film production from 260 Chinese feature films in 2005 to 638 films in 2013 (UIS, 2016: 9). This makes China the world’s third-largest film production centre behind only India and the US (UIS, 2016), with domestic films garnering over 50 per cent of China’s box office since 2009 (Yeh, 2014). Further, through the early 2000s, a number of Chinese-language films achieved global box office success, radically altering the landscape of Asian film making (Klein, 2007).…”

Section: Network Of Film Production Beyond Hollywoodmentioning

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Framing city networks through temporary projects: (Trans)national film production beyond ‘Global Hollywood’

Hoyler

Watson

2018

Urban Studies

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This paper advances research on external urban relations by drawing attention to the role of temporary project-based economic organisation in the formation of inter-firm links between cities. Through a novel empirical examination of (trans)national co-production in the motion picture industry, we reveal how such projects transcend the boundaries of individual production clusters and link urban centres within specific network configurations. Stripping away the 'top layer' of Hollywood's commercially successful feature films, we undertake a social network analysis of film productions in four markets across three continents-China, Germany, France and Brazil-to provide a unique comparative analysis of networked urban geographies. Our findings show that film production networks are grounded in existing structural relations between cities. The spatial forms of these networks range from monocentric in the case of the French film market, to dyadic in the case of China and Brazil, to polycentric in the case of the German film market. Conceptually, we argue that adopting an inter-firm project-based approach can account for the ways in which complex patterns of inter-firm production relations accumulate to form (trans)national city-networks. Viewing city networks in this way provides an important alternative perspective to dominant conceptualisations of global urban networks as formed through corporate intrafirm relations.

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Cultural Specificity and Globalization

Dorman¹

2016

Paradoxical Japaneseness

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Home Is Where Hollywood Isn’t: Recasting East Asian Film Industries

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Network dynamics and institutional context in China's film industry

Network dynamics and institutional context in China's film industry

Framing city networks through temporary projects: (Trans)national film production beyond ‘Global Hollywood’

Cultural Specificity and Globalization

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