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The global screen industry is a mature sector of the creative industries (Dawson and Holmes, Working in the global film and television industries: Creativity, systems, space, patronage, Hart Publishing, 2012)) and includes film, cinema, television, film festivals, short films, web series, animation and digital games. This chapter focuses on film and television as a creative (eco)system. It, firstly, takes an historical approach to the shared knowledge of the domain as well as the business structures and operational methods that comprise important constituent parts of the interconnected networks of the field. Film and television workers are members of this field, choice making agents who enact those operational methods and engage in selling their services, skills and film products through the business structures set up to connect with and profit from local and global audiences. The last section of the chapter tells the stories of Hunter filmmakers and television practitioners and how their creativity has emerged from internalizing the opinions of the field and the shared knowledge of the domain, enabling them to creatively contribute to the (eco)system of film and television centered on the Hunter.
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McIntyre, P., Kerrigan, S., Fulton, J., King, E., Williams, C. (2023). Film and Television. In: Creativity and Creative Industries in Regional Australia. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45972-6_13
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