The entertainment and media industries, already important sectors of the US economy, continue to grow rapidly in other countries around the world. This ninth edition of Entertainment Industry Economics continues to be the definitive source on the economics of film, music, television, advertising,...

This book brings together essays on performing arts, paying special attention to those used to support education, training and instruction, with special reference to the Third World. Attention is paid to the indigenous performing arts, to popular theatre as well as to theatre for development. In...

Since 2000, a number of performing troupes have been established in South Korea, made up largely of musicians and dancers who were professionally trained in North Korea prior to their migration and presenting a range of music and dances related to both the North and South. Combining ethnographic...

This paper offers a history of the creation and development of film societies in India from 1947 to 1980. Members of the film society movement consisted of important Indian film directors such as Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Shyam Benegal, Basu Chatterji, Mani Kaul, G. Aravindan, Kumar Shahani,...

The main points of issue at a symposium on History of South East Asian performing arts are presented. Developed out of this discourse was a plan to publish an anthology of new writings on the region's performing arts history, and extracts of some of the proposed contributions to this anthology are...

This article analyses three films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe to explore the effects of Marvel's globalized threats on Asian locations. In each of these films, destruction and chaos are all featured in fictionalized Asian settings, pointing to the duality these films ascribe to their...

This paper is particularly focused on film-induced tourism investigation as well as its cultural promotion and cultural change effect that impact on both the tourist destinations and the tourist demands. The case studies include the famous Transylvania, Romania as well as the two comparative...

Film-induced tourism refers to visits to a destination or attraction as a result of it being featured on television, film, or video. An important part of tourism marketing in Korea is the promotion of filming locations of Korean television soap operas as tourist attractions, because Korean ...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore textual patterns in ten years of electronic word-of-mouth communications amongst social media (SM) users of the Java Jazz Festival. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a data-scraping technique to gather user-generated content from Twitter. Word-cloud...

The transformation of Musée Guimet and the transition of museums in the 'countries of origin' of its collections elucidates how white-cube crystallises Western cultural hegemony by erasing the colonial past of the objects and by representing the physical form of modernity. It contributes as well to ...