1st Edition

Risk in the Film Business Known Unknowns

By Michael Franklin Copyright 2023
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. How risk is understood and managed has a substantial impact upon which films are financed, produced and seen. Founded on substantial original research accessing the highest level of industry practitioners, this book examines the intertwined activity of independents, large media companies including... Read more

Part A: Framing Risk  1. Introduction  2. A Question of Framing: Multiple and Imprecise Diagnoses of Risk Part B: Detailed Risk Responses  3. Understanding the Organisation of Risk Responses  4. Outward Looking Considerations  5. Layering of Project -Specific Infrastructure  6. Motivations, Rationalisation Processes, and Organisational Cultures  Part C: Risk Environments  7. Environmental Uncertainty: Future-Oriented and Macro Level Considerations  8. Responses and New Directions

Biography

Michael Franklin is Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.