Discourses of legitimation in New Zealand’s film policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12601717 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Blomkamp (0000-0003-0978-2830, University of Auckland, New Zealand and University of Melbourne, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 629-644 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367877912451687 |
| OpenAlex | W2141590050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article highlights the difficulties and implications of attempts to build legitimacy for state-funded cinema. Through a framing analysis of political debates and policy developments in New Zealand, and informed by international concepts and perspectives from critical and cultural policy studies, it examines the discourses employed to justify offering public funds to New Zealand filmmakers, from the 1960s through to the late 2000s. By tracing the emergence and subsequent institutionalisation of cultural nationalism as a policy frame, the author explains how the New Zealand government came to fund, and justify its support of, the production of fictional films. While this frame has continued to legitimate cultural policy, it has had to make room for the discourse of economic rationalism, which undermines traditional justifications for film funding. Recent ‘creative industries’ discourse has not effectively reconciled these competing narratives. An inclusive and deliberative reframing process would be needed to institute a more widely supported legitimating discourse for publicly funded cinema
Cognitive reframing · Cultural policy · Discourse analysis · Framing (construction · Institutionalisation · Legitimacy · Legitimation · Media studies · Movie theater · Narrative · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
Reframing Policy Discourse
The rhetoric of abstract goals in national cultural policies
Cultural Policy
Globalizing the Creative Industries Concept
Frame Reflection
Analysing Discourse
‘And the winner is …’
New Danish Screen – an organizational facilitation of creative initiatives
Commodification and Instrumentality in Cultural Policy
Auditing culture
Biculturalism and Cultural Diversity
Trajectories of Arts and Culture Policy in New Zealand
The Concept of National Cinema
Narrative policy analysis and the integration of public involvement in decision making
The New Zealand film commission
Rethinking the Public Sphere
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |