%0 Book %A Anne Rajala %A Daniel Lindblom %A Matteo Stocchetti %D 2020 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9783631813300 %T The Political Economy of Local Cinema: A Critical Introduction %R 10.3726/b16846 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068913 %X The globalization and digitalization of cultural markets presents formidable challenges for local cinema and storytelling. The essays in this collection address some of these challenges from the perspective of a critical political economy of local cinema. Inspiring these contributions is the effort of supporting local cinema as a form of valuable storytelling that is at risk of market-driven extinction because of the greater commercial viability of global or Hollywood cinema and national cinema. %K digitalization, globalization, sense-making, reality-building, Immersive storytelling %G English