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  • New Indies in old skins: the online audience building for The Hunt for Gollum

    Author(s)
    Meissner, N
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Meissner, Nico
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    The Internet has allowed some cultural entrepreneurs to access worldwide mass audiences. The Hunt for Gollum (2009) was one of the earliest success stories, reaching over twelve million viewers. Examples like this have led to numerous claims that the Internet revolutionizes the creative industries, allowing truly independent cultural entrepreneurship by re-defining financing, production, marketing, distribution and exhibition of creative products. While the Internet impacts the creative industries in a multitude of ways, this article argues that building audiences for independent films continues to follow traditional principles. ...
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    The Internet has allowed some cultural entrepreneurs to access worldwide mass audiences. The Hunt for Gollum (2009) was one of the earliest success stories, reaching over twelve million viewers. Examples like this have led to numerous claims that the Internet revolutionizes the creative industries, allowing truly independent cultural entrepreneurship by re-defining financing, production, marketing, distribution and exhibition of creative products. While the Internet impacts the creative industries in a multitude of ways, this article argues that building audiences for independent films continues to follow traditional principles. It presents its argument in two stages: (I) it first identifies key principles of The Hunt for Gollum’s audience building, providing an insight into filmmaking practices of early twenty-first-century independent filmmakers, and (II) highlights the continuities in the audience building of independent films through a historical contextualization.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Media Practice
    Volume
    17
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/14682753.2016.1159436
    Subject
    Screen and digital media
    Communication and media studies
    Media studies
    Independent film
    Audience building
    Informal distribution
    Cultural autonomy
    Cultural entrepreneurship
    Cultural flow
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/100109
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