My review of Iordanova and Cunningham’s Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-Line is up now on the Manga UK blog. It’s a very interesting walk through some of the issues facing “cinema” and “broadcasting”, in a globalised economy where nobody wants to pay for anything.
I particularly like the authors’ decision to eschew content, access and production, and to talk about matters of exhibition and distribution, which are all too often overlooked in film studies.
This sounds like it could be a study in the collective panic and hand wringing of the executives who get fed by the profits of entertainment worried that they are going to see a pressure reduction in the flow of their feed pipe that keeps them in the lifestyle they are accustomed to.
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