One of the most wide-ranging and sophisticated critiques of creative industries policy argues that it is a kind of Trojan horse, secreting the intellectual heritage of the information society and its technocratic baggage into the realm of cultural practice, suborning the latter's proper claims on...

Well-established distinctions between amateur and professional are blurring as the impact of social media, changes in cultural consumption, and crises in copyright industries' business models are felt across society and economy. I call this the increasingly rapid co-evolution of the formal market...

One of the principal ways that cultural and higher education policy and practice intersect is over a shared concern with the supply of talent and its employability and career sustainability. This article considers the multidisciplinary contributions to these debates, and then engages with these...

This chapter gives an overview of the changing television landscape in the UK and the Irish Republic, and outlines the implications of these changes for an Australian programme presence against the background of a history of significant programme exchange. A case study of Neighbours demonstrates...

This chapter examines US gatekeeper perceptions of Australian programme values. While the US market constitutes a significant proportion of overall television export, it is typically one shot features, children's drama and nature documentary magazine segments, much of it carefully contextualised to ...

Six out of the ten largest markets for Australian trade are in the regions of Asia, while Australian trade with Japan is now equivalent to the whole volume of trade with the EU. This chapter focuses on areas of Australian television programme and service activity in this region, together with...

Television has been readily accepted throughout the Pacific, despite a long history of procrastination on policy due to its perceived negative effect on national development and traditional cultures. Pacific governments have been pressured to introduce a service which includes popular Western...

This section examines the domestic structure and operations of the Australian television industry, concentrating primarily on the patterns and developments since the mid to late 1980s. Divided into three chapters, chapter 3 identifies that the emergence of Australia as a considerable production...

This chapter analyses European television systems and examines the inroads that Australian productions have been able to make into these systems. There is no pan-European market for television, although the regulators continue to put in place arrangements designed to foster one. In every country...

The New Zealand mediascape has been greatly transformed by the doctrines of economic rationalism. Even though a broadcasting fee is still imposed for the right to receive television signals, TVNZ is a state owned enterprise operating on commercial profit making principles while TV3 is a private...