An Economic Perspective to Independent Cinema

Cemali Arici () and Mustafa Yücel

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper investigates the economic patterns related to independent cinema, which seems to be an understudied perspective in the literature. Using the classification in The Movie Database, we delve into basic features of movies and make comparisons of mainstream and independent cinema. Applying count regression models to alternative classifications of independent movies, we investigate the temporal patterns of independent movie creation and the linkages between independent and mainstream production volumes. We find that increasing number of independent films may be partially an outcome of increase in mainstream movie releases, showing a case of positive externality. In addition, increasing production budget for a movie has a positive impact on independent movie releases, in which the independent movies are more financed by the foundations such as United Artists over years.

Keywords: Cinema; Movies; Independent movies; Economics of art; Count regressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C20 Z11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-08-01, Revised 2020-02-16
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cul
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/98679/1/MPRA_paper_98679.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:98679

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().