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Film Distribution: A Changing Business

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35035
ISBN: 978-3-319-62757-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62758-8_7
UXXI: CO/0000011984
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2017
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Palgrave Macmillan
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This chapter reveals the importance of the video market to processes of change and growth in the film distribution business. Film became a newly lucrative business because the demand for films in the video market grew dramatically in the 1980s. With the recent development of the digital and on-line video market, in which distributors are replaced by new gatekeepers such as digital platform providers and what are called content aggregators, the market share for on-line revenues is also growing year on year. The chapter considers: how do distributors respond to the growing on-line video market? Will digital platform providers and content aggregators become more dominant in the near future? And how does this affect film distribution processes?
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Film Distribution, Dvd, Blu-Ray, VOD, Video On Demand
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Smits, R. C. Film Distribution: A Changing Business. In: DVD, Blu-Ray and Beyond: Navigating Formats and Platforms within Media Consumption. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 115-134
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