CFP: Film and Economics in the 21st Century

This call for papers for a special issue of Film International: Journal of World Cinema intends to gather texts that will help strengthen knowledge on contemporary paradigms concerning production, funding, distribution, screening, and film marketing in non-English-language cinemas. Submissions are due by June 1, 2022.

The editors welcome contributions, stemming from original research, related (but not limited) to the following topics:  

• Film, marketing, and economics in non-English-language cinemas
• The international film circuit and its historical and contemporary dynamics
• Impact of policy frameworks in the film activity of peripheral countries
• Case studies: a) how film companies operate; b) disruptive and innovative strategies to keep production (or other aspects of the film chain value) viable