John Hill is Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and the author or editor of a range of books and journals including British Cinema in the 1980s (1999), Cinema and Northern Ireland (2006) and Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television (2011). Nobuko Kawashima is Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and Visiting Professor in the Policy Alternatives Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of two books on the creative industries (in Japanese 2009, 2013) and co-editor of Global Culture: Media, Arts, Policy, and Globalization (2002).

• Introduction: film policy in a globalised cultural economy 1. Regulating the global infrastructure of film labor exploitation 2. Hollywood, the MPAA, and the formation of anti-piracy policy 3. Living with Hollywood: British film policy and the definition of ‘nationality’ 4. German film policy’s new horizons 5. ‘Why not make films for New York?’: the interaction between cultural, political and commercial perspectives in Swedish film policy 1963–2013 6. Film policy under globalization: the case of Mexico 7. The Chinese–Korean co-production pact: collaborative encounters and the accelerating expansion of Chinese cinema 8. Film policy in Japan – an isolated species on the verge of extinction?

John Hill is Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and the author or editor of a range of books and journals including British Cinema in the 1980s (1999), Cinema and Northern Ireland (2006) and Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television (2011). Nobuko Kawashima is Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and Visiting Professor in the Policy Alternatives Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of two books on the creative industries (in Japanese 2009, 2013) and co-editor of Global Culture: Media, Arts, Policy, and Globalization (2002).

• Introduction: film policy in a globalised cultural economy 1. Regulating the global infrastructure of film labor exploitation 2. Hollywood, the MPAA, and the formation of anti-piracy policy 3. Living with Hollywood: British film policy and the definition of ‘nationality’ 4. German film policy’s new horizons 5. ‘Why not make films for New York?’: the interaction between cultural, political and commercial perspectives in Swedish film policy 1963–2013 6. Film policy under globalization: the case of Mexico 7. The Chinese–Korean co-production pact: collaborative encounters and the accelerating expansion of Chinese cinema 8. Film policy in Japan – an isolated species on the verge of extinction?

John Hill is Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and the author or editor of a range of books and journals including British Cinema in the 1980s (1999), Cinema and Northern Ireland (2006) and Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television (2011). Nobuko Kawashima is Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and Visiting Professor in the Policy Alternatives Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of two books on the creative industries (in Japanese 2009, 2013) and co-editor of Global Culture: Media, Arts, Policy, and Globalization (2002).

• Introduction: film policy in a globalised cultural economy 1. Regulating the global infrastructure of film labor exploitation 2. Hollywood, the MPAA, and the formation of anti-piracy policy 3. Living with Hollywood: British film policy and the definition of ‘nationality’ 4. German film policy’s new horizons 5. ‘Why not make films for New York?’: the interaction between cultural, political and commercial perspectives in Swedish film policy 1963–2013 6. Film policy under globalization: the case of Mexico 7. The Chinese–Korean co-production pact: collaborative encounters and the accelerating expansion of Chinese cinema 8. Film policy in Japan – an isolated species on the verge of extinction?