Music production and technology in Australian Film: enabling Australian film to embrace innovation. Given the increasing tendency of the US film industry to co-opt international talent and production bases into its global operation (New Zealand being a prime example), Australian cinema faces mounting hurdles in its quest for national and international success. While education centres such as AFTRS have contributed to excellence in key aspects of local production, Australian film music has been a ....Music production and technology in Australian Film: enabling Australian film to embrace innovation. Given the increasing tendency of the US film industry to co-opt international talent and production bases into its global operation (New Zealand being a prime example), Australian cinema faces mounting hurdles in its quest for national and international success. While education centres such as AFTRS have contributed to excellence in key aspects of local production, Australian film music has been afforded minimal attention. Consequently, music industry training and production often proceeds on the bases of vague assumptions and inefficient precedents. In-depth research is vital to inform national training, production and policy making so as to allow Australian cinema to embrace innovation and engage creatively with the international market.Read moreRead less
The shift from cultural institution to creative enterprise. The benefits of this project will be renewal of contemporary research agendas in Chinese studies. Professor Zhang Xiaoming is ideally positioned as head of a large national research centre to update Australian researchers on China's post-WTO developments in the cultural sector and beyond into business enterprise ethics. The benefits of the visit will flow to media and communication studies, policy studies, cultural geography, and Chines ....The shift from cultural institution to creative enterprise. The benefits of this project will be renewal of contemporary research agendas in Chinese studies. Professor Zhang Xiaoming is ideally positioned as head of a large national research centre to update Australian researchers on China's post-WTO developments in the cultural sector and beyond into business enterprise ethics. The benefits of the visit will flow to media and communication studies, policy studies, cultural geography, and Chinese studies.Read moreRead less
Internationalising Creative Industries: China, the WTO and the Knowledge-based Economy. This project investigates the challenges facing the creative industries internationally as the rationales for government support and industry development are seen variously as cultural, as part of the burgeoning services sector, and/or as contributing to the knowledge-based economy. To place the creative industries in an international frame, comparing developed countries? policy and industry strategies with t ....Internationalising Creative Industries: China, the WTO and the Knowledge-based Economy. This project investigates the challenges facing the creative industries internationally as the rationales for government support and industry development are seen variously as cultural, as part of the burgeoning services sector, and/or as contributing to the knowledge-based economy. To place the creative industries in an international frame, comparing developed countries? policy and industry strategies with those of China, the most important developing country, after its admission to the WTO, is a significant conceptual advance and innovation not attempted before. Australia will benefit from international comparisons of industry strategy and growth and from strategic knowledge of China's creative economy dynamics.Read moreRead less