Australian Cultural Policy Unravelled
The Digital Demise of National Television Drama
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Australian Cultural Policy Unravelled
The Digital Demise of National Television Drama
About this book
This book explores the impacts of digitization and sector internationalization on national drama production and their consequences for industry, audiences, and domestic storytelling. Using Australia as a case study, it provides a systematic evaluation of the efficacy of cultural policy intended to support the production and circulation of national drama from 2001–2024.
During the first two decades of the 21st century, new digital distribution technologies transformed the business of television worldwide, bringing conditions of abundance that ended mass media logics grounded in scarcity of content and providers. Digitization upended longstanding norms around the funding, production, and circulation of national television drama radically changing the ecosystem that had shaped Australian screen industry cultural policies.
This book's analysis of the responses of policymakers, broadcasters, production companies, and screen agencies to television's transformation evaluates their collective impacts on Australian television drama. It explains how 21st-century dynamics undermined cultural policy supporting the production of Australian drama with cultural value, leading to catastrophic falls in productions hours and titles. This book argues that the scale of disruption caused by digitization causes to transnational and national television urgently requires a bold re-imagining of cultural policy instruments intended to support the production of national drama in Australia.
This account will be of interest to screen industry practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and, more generally, to anyone wondering whatever happened to Australian television drama.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Acronyms
- 1 Cultural policy has failed Australian television drama
- 2 Understanding Australian television culture
- 3 The end of mass media logics: Broadcaster and policymaker responses
- 4 Screen agency roles and reforms: The case of Screen Australia
- 5 Australian drama producers: Evolution and adaption
- 6 Policy reform: Looking to the future
- 7 Conclusions and implications for Australian drama
- Index