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This blog explores US influence (financial + cultural), Anglocentric (ie, primarily English) representations, digitisation, ownership, industry developments, audience, media theories, tracking key news + events, with Film/Media A-Level/undergrad students + educators in mind. Examples often include Sheffield's Warp (Indie) and London/LA-based Working Title (NBC-Universal subsidiary), ie This is England/Four Lions v Bridget Jones/Green Zone! Please acknowledge the source/blog author: Mr D Burrowes
Friday, August 24, 2012
Film4 Reimaginings: TisEng wins
Postmodern, comparable in some ways to sweding, an interesting reflection on the limitations of copyright and the importance of UGC for generating revenue for major film companies ... check out this story (with embedded clips): http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/aug/24/this-is-england-film-4
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Hollywood encourages piracy?!
This is the claim of a well-argued article at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-hollywood-encouraging-onine-piracy
Good + useful points on the inferior nature of download 'rental' (Netflix etc), all part of the digitisation debate
From a more conventional perspective, here's news of Google bowing to pressure from Hollywood and the music industry to effectively hide search results from certain download sites.
Good + useful points on the inferior nature of download 'rental' (Netflix etc), all part of the digitisation debate
From a more conventional perspective, here's news of Google bowing to pressure from Hollywood and the music industry to effectively hide search results from certain download sites.
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