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,...

Since 1936, the Italian Society of Authors and Editors (SIAE) has produced an annual statistical review of the performing arts in Italy. The 1981 edition, like those of preceding years, covers the various types of theatrical and musical entertainment, the cinema in its different forms (with a...

This study on participation in cultural events and use of the media in Norway during 1991 is based on interviews with persons aged 9 to 79 years old. Cinemas, sports events and libraries were found to be the most visited; about 60% of the population had attended one of these in the last 12 months....

Event cinema is a very new medium that museums and galleries are only beginning to exploit. It offers new ways to present exhibitions and provides access to a new venue: the cinema. In an effort to understand the communication opportunities it can offer, this article assembles interviews with those ...

Over recent decades the number of festivals occurring annually has grown exponentially, with one area of events witnessing significant growth being dance music festivals - outdoor events that feature various genres of electronic dance music. This article contributes to the academic study of ...

Digitalization has also been disruptive to academic research on the film industry. Decades of insight into the factors behind the success and failure of filmed entertainment had been garnered from studying the old model, one that had been dominant for more than half a century.Footnote1 But as that...

Movie theaters typically appear adjacent to discussions of new media. Although there has been work on digital cinema, we shift the focus from the digitization of the medium to the digitization of the theatrical audience and analyze the movie theater as new media. To do so, we look at the historical ...

Cultural industries are becoming in general more important in advanced economies as sources of employment and economic growth. In this paper, a quantitative exploration is given of recent trends in cultural industries in the Netherlands. Eight types of cultural industries are considered: (1)...

Regeneration of Sriwedariwayang orang/wong (literally, human puppet) art-observers is a complicated issue encountered by the Solo city art group. Wayang orang has long been becoming one of Surakarta's performing art icons and its continuity is a shared concern. The regeneration is influenced by...

Since the dawn of independence, concerted efforts have been made to ameliorate the living standard of rural masses. Fifty per cent of the villages still have poor socio-economic conditions. Even today, we will find villages where there is no proper electricity. People in such places might not be...