World Cinema On Demand

Stefano Baschiera is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work on European cinema, material culture and film industries has been published in a variety of edited collections and journals, including Film International, Bianco e Nero, New Review of Film and Television Studies and NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. He is also the co-editor of the book Italian Horror Cinema (2016) and Film and Domestic Space:Architectures, Representations, Dispositif (2020). Alexander Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he teaches modules on World Cinema. He has published widely on the topic of African cinema, focusing on its production and distribution, as well as its aesthetic dimensions. His work has appeared in journals such as Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, Visual Anthropology, The Journal of African Cinemas and The Journal of African Media Studies, as well as multiple edited collections.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments


Introduction
Stefano Baschiera (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Alexander Fisher (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

PART 1: The Limits of Disintermediation: Problems of Gatekeeping

1. Shifting Gatekeepers: Power and Influence in Informal Online Film Distribution
Virginia Crisp (King's College London, UK)

2. Cinephile File Sharing: Informal Distribution, Plural Canons and Digital Film Archives
Angela Meili (State University of Paraná, Brazil)

3. Bridges, Streams and Dams: The Multiple Negotiated Strategies of Distribution and Access in Latin American Cinema
Niamh Thornton (University of Liverpool, UK)

PART 2: Streaming in National and Transnational Contexts

4. Netflix in Europe: The National in Global SVOD Services
Stefano Baschiera (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Valentina Re (Link Campus University, Italy)

5. Danmaku Commenting: A New Interaction Experience on China’s Video Streaming Sites
Yuanyuan Chen (University of Ulster, UK) and Rebecca Crawford (University of Ulster, UK)

6. Turkish Online Distribution: Fighting for Indie Filmmaking in a Neoliberal and Censored Context
Murat Akser (University of Ulster, UK)

7. India's Online Streaming Revolution: Global Over-the-Top (OTT) Platforms, Film Spectatorship, and the Ecosystem of Indian Cinemas
Nandana Bose (Independent Scholar, USA)

PART 3: Global transformations. Case Study: Africa

8. Curating Africa Online: The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Consumption of African Audio-visual Content
Justine Atkinson (University of Glasgow, UK) and Lizelle Bisschoff (University of Glasgow, UK)

9. Reset Mode: African Digital Video Films as Expanded Cinema
Sheila Petty (University of Regina, Canada)

10. Netflix and Africa: Streaming, Branding and Tastemaking in Non-domestic African Film Markets
Alexander Fisher (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

Index