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Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. viii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Why distribution? | p. 2 |
Formal and informal film economies | p. 3 |
Shadows, sites and circuits | p. 4 |
Distribution from Above and Below | p. 9 |
Redefining distribution: theory and practice | p. 10 |
Distribution from below | p. 13 |
The cultural politics of distribution | p. 14 |
Conclusion | p. 19 |
The Straight-to-video Slaughterhouse | p. 21 |
'Anything with sprocket holes' | p. 22 |
The STV aesthetic | p. 24 |
Transnational STV circuits | p. 26 |
Shooting and selling STV action in the Asia-Pacific | p. 30 |
The slaughterhouse of cinema | p. 32 |
Conclusion | p. 36 |
Informal Media Economies | p. 39 |
The formal and the informal | p. 39 |
The centrality of informality | p. 41 |
Informal economies of cinema | p. 43 |
Informality, cinema and the state | p. 47 |
Between formal and informal distribution: Tropa de elite | p. 49 |
Nollywood at Large | p. 55 |
A short history of the Nigerian video boom | p. 56 |
The formalising imperative | p. 59 |
Formalising international distribution | p. 63 |
Conclusion | p. 66 |
Six Faces of Piracy | p. 69 |
Copyright and the construction of piracy | p. 70 |
Piracy as theft | p. 72 |
Piracy as free enterprise | p. 74 |
Piracy as free speech | p. 76 |
Piracy as authorship | p. 78 |
Piracy as resistance | p. 80 |
Piracy as access | p. 82 |
Everyday ethics of piracy in Tepito, Mexico City | p. 85 |
Tepito postscript 2010 | p. 91 |
The Grey Internet | p. 95 |
Mapping the online distribution ecology | p. 96 |
Linking sites | p. 100 |
Video-hosting sites | p. 101 |
Cyberlockers | p. 104 |
Informal enforcement on the digital frontier | p. 106 |
Conclusion | p. 109 |
Conclusion: Coordinates for Studying Distribution in a Digital Age | p. 111 |
From pipelines to swarms | p. 112 |
Rethinking informational freedom | p. 114 |
Appendix: A Film Distribution Research Guide | p. 119 |
Notes | p. 129 |
Bibliography | p. 149 |
Index | p. 163 |
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