Made in New York, Stayed in New York Cultural Production and The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting

Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Brain, David

Keywords

Cultural Production, Cinema, Cultural Economy

Area of Concentration

Sociology

Abstract

To what extent can film commissions affect the production of material culture? What role do municipal institutions play in regional culture industries? When thinking about the production of material culture, we don�t always think of tangential institutions as having any meaningful part in the production of culture. I use semi-structured interviews and bibliographic analysis to ascertain the extent to which the Mayor�s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting, the acting film commission in New York City, meaningfully affects the production of material culture. The results of my work illuminate the relationship between the MOFTB and the cultural/visual media industry networks and New York City�s cultural economy as a whole. This thesis also elucidates on the ways in which municipal institutions involve themselves in cultural production industries. From this, I am able to give suggestions for more comprehensive research on film commissions� involvement in both the production of material culture and within their regional cultural industry networks.

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