World Cinema On Demand

Stefano Baschiera is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work on European cinema, material culture and film industries has been published in a variety of edited collections and journals, including Film International, Bianco e Nero, New Review of Film and Television Studies and NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. He is also the co-editor of the book Italian Horror Cinema (2016) and Film and Domestic Space:Architectures, Representations, Dispositif (2020). Alexander Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he teaches modules on World Cinema. He has published widely on the topic of African cinema, focusing on its production and distribution, as well as its aesthetic dimensions. His work has appeared in journals such as Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, Visual Anthropology, The Journal of African Cinemas and The Journal of African Media Studies, as well as multiple edited collections.

An impressive collection on online film distribution with an original focus on World Cinema in the early stages of the development of the online market.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgments IntroductionStefano Baschiera (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Alexander Fisher (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)PART 1: The Limits of Disintermediation: Problems of Gatekeeping1. Shifting Gatekeepers: Power and Influence in Informal Online Film DistributionVirginia Crisp (King's College London, UK)2. Cinephile File Sharing: Informal Distribution, Plural Canons and Digital Film ArchivesAngela Meili (State University of Paraná, Brazil)3. Bridges, Streams and Dams: The Multiple Negotiated Strategies of Distribution and Access in Latin American CinemaNiamh Thornton (University of Liverpool, UK)PART 2: Streaming in National and Transnational Contexts4. Netflix in Europe: The National in Global SVOD ServicesStefano Baschiera (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Valentina Re (Link Campus University, Italy)5. Danmaku Commenting: A New Interaction Experience on China’s Video Streaming SitesYuanyuan Chen (University of Ulster, UK) and Rebecca Crawford (University of Ulster, UK)6. Turkish Online Distribution: Fighting for Indie Filmmaking in a Neoliberal and Censored ContextMurat Akser (University of Ulster, UK) 7. India's Online Streaming Revolution: Global Over-the-Top (OTT) Platforms, Film Spectatorship, and the Ecosystem of Indian CinemasNandana Bose (Independent Scholar, USA)PART 3: Global transformations. Case Study: Africa8. Curating Africa Online: The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Consumption of African Audio-visual ContentJustine Atkinson (University of Glasgow, UK) and Lizelle Bisschoff (University of Glasgow, UK)9. Reset Mode: African Digital Video Films as Expanded CinemaSheila Petty (University of Regina, Canada)10. Netflix and Africa: Streaming, Branding and Tastemaking in Non-domestic African Film MarketsAlexander Fisher (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)Index