Handbook of State Aid for Film

Chapter 1: Why Study State Aid for Film? A First Clarification.- Chapter 2: Introducing the Book's Topics.- Part I: Exploring Scholarly Themes.- Chapter 3: The Economics of Film Financing: An Introduction.- Chapter 4: Private Equity Finance: The Role of Private Investors in the European Film Market.- Chapter 5: Film Governance in the EU: Caught in a Loop?.- Chapter 6: Governance, Public Interest, and Public Film Funding: Discussing a new Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 7: State Subsidies to Film and their Effects at the Box Office: Theorizing and Measuring Why Some Genres do Better than Others.- Chapter 8: How Film Financing Shapes Project Strategy: Applying Organizational Economics to a Case Study in Norway.- Chapter 9: How Hollywood Applies Industrial Strategies to Counter Market Uncertainty: The Issues of Financing and Exhibition.- Part II: AnalysingCurrent Practices.- Chapter 10: Public Funding for Film and other Audio-visual Works in Europe: Key Industry Statistics 2010 - 2014.- Chapter 11: The European Commission's Approach to Film Funding: Striking a Difficult Balance.- Chapter 12: Supporting Film Distribution across Europe: Why is Overcoming National Barriers so Difficult?.- Chapter 13: Film Funding Law in the European Union: Discussing the Rationale and Reviewing the Practice.- chapter 14: Public Film Funding in Australia: Recent History and Empirical Analysis.- Chapter 15: Exploring the Ecosystem and Principles of Austria's Film Subsidy Schemes: Is Austria A "Best-Practice" Model for a Successful Film Policy?.- Chapter 16: Film Subsidies, History and the "Economization of Culture" in Austria: An Expert Interview.- Chapter 17: Public Film Funding under a "Federalist Policy Paradigm": A Synoptic Analysis of State Aid for Film in Germany.- Chapter 18: France's Protected and Subsidized Film Industry: Is the Subsidy Scheme living up to its Promises?.- Chapter 19: Government Failure: The Ineffectiveness of Italian State Subsidies to Film.- Chapter 20: Evaluating

Paul Clemens Murschetz is Professor at Berlin University of Digital Sciences. He has been visiting senior lecturer for the University of Westminster's School of Media, Arts and Design (Department of Journalism and Mass Communication) and W2-Professor at CBS-Cologne Business School GmbH. Paul holds an MA and PhD. in management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Studies (1989/1992), an MSc. in media and communication studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1996), and a Habilitation from the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria.

Roland Teichmann, LLM, is CEO of the Austrian Film Institute since 2004. Roland began his career in the Federal Economic Chamber. In 2001 he became general manager of the Association of the Audiovisual and Film Industry. Since then, he has held several leadership positions: board member of the Austrian Film Commission, advisory board member of the Association of Austrian Film Producers (aafp), Austrian representative of the International Producers Association (FIAPF), representative for Austria at EFAD (European Film Agency Directors), chairman of the advisory board of the Television Film Fund managed by the Austrian communication regulatory authority RTR and member of the European Film Academy (EFA). Roland is also national representative for Austria at Eurimages and used to teach film funding and financing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.



Matthias Karmasin is full Professor and Chair for the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt in Austria. Further, he is corresponding member of the philosophic-historic class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and Director of the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies aligned to it. His research focuses on media accountability, media ethics, media management, political communication, and communication theory.