Why do we watch what we watch? explaining film import choices of invidual countries among different production sources.

• Main Author: Sim, Clarice Chwei Lin.
• Other Authors: Fu, Wayne Wei-Jen
• Format: Final Year Project
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1206
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study examines the theatrical film import choices of individual countries over nine country production sources, namely the US, Italy, France, UK, India, Russia, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong. An empirical model consisting of measures of cinema market scale, cultural distance, linguistic similar...