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Globalisation and film policy in Greater China (Film policy in Great China…

- - - - They all acknowledge :
        the trends of globalization and
        the powder of the market
        their support for the domestic film industry equally reveals a strong economic logic
      - Government censorship constitutes an integral element of each market's film policy
    - - The three governments
        tackle the balance between economic and cultural imperatives of film policy
        in fundamentally different ways.
        
        HK focus primarily on the economic imperative
        
        Taiwan gears more towards the cultural imperative
        
        China somewhere in between
      - Implementing their support for the local film Industry
        Resort to different approachs
        
        HK: Being the free market in the world
        Rrestrains from intervening directly in the operation of the film market.
        Adopt pro-competitive, deregulatory measures to improve the market environment for film businesses.
        Financial support,facilitate film production and collaboration.
        
        China and Taiwan Measure
        Give the domestic film industry advantages over foreign competitors.(a strong protectionist mark )
        
        China market is the least open.
        Instituted various barriers to restrict the entry of foreign films and a complicated licensing system to control the industry as a whole.
      - Censorship
        
        HK
        A strong social concern and aims to protect public morality and children
        
        China Taiwan
        Entail a mixed bag of cultural, social and political preoccupations and are much more restrictive in nature
        
        HK Taiwan
        Acknowledge the consumer's freedom to choose and the need to balance between censorship and creative freedom
        China: absent from the Chinese rhetoric
        Taiwan's case
        The government also incorporates a positive approach in its censorship by rewarding films with desirable contents.
      - Film policy
        Reflect the political economy of the local context and contains its own contradictions.
        
        HK
        Fully liberalized its film market and committed to minimal government intervention
        Policy does not provide substantial financial support for the local film industry
        Lack of a strong cultural Identity: (Uncertain about its own cultural identity and thus have little desire to confirm its Chinese cultural heritage through its film policy.)
        May fatal to the revitalisation of its film industry
        Find its own cultural niche. Exploit the potential of the Chinese market
        
        Taiwan
        Some of the government's political agendas also creep into its film policy and interfere with the goal of promoting local film
        (eg. making art films rather than popular cinema)
        financial support goes to local films that win international awards
        do poorly at the box office and are shunned by local exhibitors
        Showcase its cultural image on the international stage rather than public discourse.
        
        China
        Enormous competitive advantages:baked by a huge domestic market.
        
        China Taiwan
        Film policy can be easily hijacked by the government to implement its political and ideological agendas
        In practice, the line between the economic, cultural and political dimensions of film policy tends to be veru blurred and precarious to maintain
        Fend off foreign competition
        Rigorous censorship() can create an unhealthy culture of self-censorship
        Apolitical film
        liberalisation of government censorship.