ABSTRACT This paper aims to apply the three-tier feature film structure to the contemporary New Zealand filmmaking context in order to add clarity to existing distinctions between the different types of film production occurring in Twenty-first Century New Zealand. Those are subject to, and emerge from, sometimes very different institutional and financing arrangements, and thus entail different expectations. The paper takes an institutional political economy perspective and is organised as follows. First, it provides an overview of how the feature film industry can be portrayed as segmented by various overlapping (three) tiers of production, which may differ between Hollywood and smaller film industries in countries around the world. Second, the paper applies the three-tier structure within the contemporary New Zealand filmmaking context. Third, the paper explains the characteristics of every feature film tier by acknowledging their distinctiveness and highlighting the benefits they deliver to the New Zealand filmmaking industry. Finally, it concludes that all three-tier of feature film production have been crucial for generating and sustaining a feature film industry in a small English-speaking country such as New Zealand.

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新西兰故事片产业的三层结构

摘要本文旨在将三层故事片结构应用到当代新西兰电影制作中，以使在二十一世纪新西兰发生的不同类型电影制作之间的现有区别更加清晰。这些受制于有时来自非常不同的机构和融资安排，并从中产生，因此带来了不同的期望。本文从制度政治经济学的角度出发，安排如下。首先，它概述了长片电影行业如何按不同的重叠（三个）生产层次进行细分，这在好莱坞和世界其他国家的小型电影行业之间可能有所不同。其次，本文将三层结构应用于当代新西兰电影制作中。第三，本文通过承认每个故事片的独特性并强调它们为新西兰电影业带来的利益，来解释每个故事片层的特征。最后，结论是，在新西兰这样的英语小国，故事片的所有三个生产环节对于创造和维持故事片产业至关重要。