Locomotives and stargates: inner‐city studio complexes in Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto

Ben Goldsmith; Tom O'Regan

doi:10.1080/1028663042000212319

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Locomotives and stargates: inner‐city studio complexes in Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto

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Locomotives and stargates: inner‐city studio complexes in Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto

Ben Goldsmith and Tom O'Regan

International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol.10(1), pp.29-45

2004

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1028663042000212319

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Abstract

Communication and Media Studies

Cultural Studies

Commercial Services

urban regeneration

film studios

city branding

film policy

cultural policy

screen production

This article examines the place of large studio complexes in plans for the regeneration of inner-city areas of Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto. Recent developments in each city are placed in the context of international audiovisual production dynamics, and are considered in terms of the ways they intersect with a range of policy thinking. They are at once part of particular urban revitalisation agendas, industry development planning, city branding and image-making strategies, and new thinking about film policy at national and sub-national levels. The article views studio complexes through four frames: as particular kinds of studio complex development; as "locomotives" driving a variety of related industries; as "stargates" enabling a variety of transformations, including the remediation of contaminated, derelict or outmoded land controlled by public authorities or their agents close to the centre of each city; and as components of the entrepreneurial, internationally oriented city

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Title: Locomotives and stargates: inner‐city studio complexes in Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto
Authors: Ben Goldsmith (Author) - Griffith University
Tom O'Regan (Author) - Griffith University
Publication details: International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol.10(1), pp.29-45
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2004
DOI: 10.1080/1028663042000212319
ISSN: 1028-6632
Copyright note: Copyright © 2004 The Author. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Ben Goldsmith & Tom O'Regan (2004) LOCOMOTIVES AND STARGATES, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 10:1, 29-45, DOI: 10.1080/1028663042000212319, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1028663042000212319
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449387102621
Output Type: Journal article

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