Feature filmmaking within the new Europe

Moving funds and images across the East-West divide

Bibliographic Data

ID11267256
AuthorsDina Iordanova (0000-0003-3828-390X, University of Leicester, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume24
Issue4
Pages517-536
Publication date2002-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/016344370202400404
OpenAlexW2076155296
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited2

Various politico-economic aspects of Europe-wide co-production practices are evaluated through the prism of the film industry of Eastern Europe, a region where international financing was of vital importance for film production throughout the 1990s. The study investigates a) the changing Western European priorities in cultural policies and the resulting disappearance of aid targeting Eastern European cinema (with the example of Fonds Eco); b) the current financing set-up of co-productions that provides opportunities exclusively for established European ‘auteurs’, and makes migrating to the West an imperative career-move for aspiring filmmakers from these nations; c) the emergence of new regional co-production configurations that transcend former and even current political division lines and are based on principles of regionalism; and d) the functional problems of the programmes meant to assist distribution (with the example of Eurimages)

Distribution (mathematics · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Filmmaking · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Prism · Production (economics · Regionalism (politics · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Law

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